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RE: The elephant in the room you don't see until it steps on you or someone near you...
Sometimes rational discussion goes nowhere...then what? lol
Human nature. Yes, it won't always work. Yet we must still make the attempt.
Also changing a persons mind is not instantaneous (or rarely so). You have no way of knowing if what you said planted a seed that took time to make sense to them and some time down the road you may have changed them in some way.
I absolutely agree that every time the effort should be put forth to be civil, but at the point of which they continue in such a way that is divisive what do we do?
And you're right, I'd never thought about the fact that I could have "planted a seed." Change often does take time.
What you can. Yet don't drop to their level. Act like the person you'd hope other people would be like. Don't sully yourself due to their intractable nature.
I think in any controversial subject or where you have someone acting in defense of their beliefs it almost always takes time. The cases where it does not are actually pretty rare.