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Originally Posted by Make Christmas Great Again

also often you are debating with people still to live their lives and as such are still optimistic and idealistic and have not yet realised certain realities of life that come with experience, responsibility and commitment.

I agree to an extent but not totally. You're saying in pretty concrete terms that "with age comes wisdom" which is false - and demonstrably false in that you can take two people of the same age, at ANY age, and of comparable life experience, and find conflicting opinion. Thereby negating the possibility of some sort of universal accuracy in "wisdom".

You have to be careful about misidentifying entrenched opinion layered in confirmation bias as "knowledge", "experience" or "wisdom". Sometimes it's just the same old crap that was there in a person's earlier years, caked on and dried out into stinky cement.