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How is ignoring evidence embarrassing? To you perhaps, to me certainly. But why would it embarrass them?
A better word is it completely crushes their souls and makes their final moments unimaginably miserable, but that's heavier to type out so just "embarrassment" for shorthand works
You're convinced being right has any fucking value.
And I'm right about that too...
Not in discourse, politics, or persuasion. If anything it's a liability.
Not sure what you mean
Nobody cares about the truth, and by virtue of being true, something is harder to weave into narratives anyone gives a single fuck about.
Or, sometimes people care about things being true-studies have shown that citing sources can entrench opposition, and in fact does so much more often than it convinces anyone.