No, sorry, I can’t prove it to you on the internet

Discussions and debates online often end with someone demanding I prove a point to them. That demand is absolutely worthless to me and I have found time and time again that it is pointless to try. No matter what I say to such a person they will just dig their heels in deeper. That inevitably makes them more convinced that they are correct not less. I try to be nice in cases like this. But I really just want some internet stranger who insists I alter their worldview through some mystical force of pure reason… Wow there’s too much in that sentence. I try to say Fuck Off as nicely as I can.