What Arguing on Social Media Sounds Like

Prompted by bickering along similar lines over similar arguments in a few Facebook groups I belong to. The arguing does little to persuade, does nothing to convince the other side of the "error" of their ways, and leads to dissonance in what should be a cooperative environment.

Jim Lovell's reaction here is to point out that the arguing will only serve to rile people up, not doing a thing to solve the current problem we all face together: Trying to stay alive.

As a corollary, I thought this was interesting: Substitute "GamerGate" for whatever problem or demon or institution being argued over, and I think the logic displayed here applies.