The people who always ask for evidence in arguments

also believe in conditions that are not defined by any evidence other than a self report. Take hearing voices as an example. The only thing we know is that there is a group of people who claim they hear them. It's entirely possible that they just have some other unifying factor that makes them report this but they aren't actually experiencing it. This willingness to believe one thing but not another is a result of a compassion flaw. The only reason you take someone at their word is because you are afraid of what happens if you don't but that is illogical. I want others to admit this because of the arrogance so often on display.

"Don't be mean to homeless man, you don't know his story"

Don't be kind to him either then. Ignore him

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room101 · 51-55, M

Is it possible that, people who ask for evidence, are those that expect opinions to be evidence based?

Just a thought🤔

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

@room101 Yes but not in the cases I'm referring to because they only expect it of their opposition. In the application of such a value they let themselves slide

room101 · 51-55, M

@Jackaloftheazuresand If someone were to say something to me that I agree with, why would I want (or need) to see evidence? Surely evidence is required when disagreement (ie opposition) exists, no?

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

@room101 Oh I don't know maybe because to have arrived at your held position to begin with you should follow your rule. But that's okay just be deliberately difficult with the sidestepping questions

room101 · 51-55, M

@Jackaloftheazuresand How am I sidestepping or being difficult? Not my fault that your premise doesn't hold water🤷‍♂️

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Heartlander · 80-89, M

@room101 People who ask for evidence often do so because they themselves lack the evidence to prove otherwise :)

room101 · 51-55, M

@Jackaloftheazuresand What the fuck are you babbling on about now? What did you see dipshit?

Please provide evidence🤣🤣🤣

Oh and btw nothing is ever obvious in your demented ramblings because, yeah you guessed it, you're demented.

room101 · 51-55, M

@Heartlander Will your mental gymnastics never end?

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@room101

:) and as their evidence well starts to run dry, rather than digging deeper, they reduce their arguments to personalized insults and trash-talk.

room101 · 51-55, M

@Heartlander Insults and trash talk is what one gets (from me) when they constantly and consistently bend over backwards to align with their little tribe. Often (if not always) without any regard whatsoever to reality.

I have been on this site since it began. Prior to that, I was on EP for a number of years. Without doubt, every single time that I've been involved in any kind of debate or discussion on any topic, those that refuse to provide evidence are those that fall into a very specific socio-political group.

Every! single! time!