Lazy Post (My Argument Essay)

I'm really lazy so I'm forgoing everything (you'll have to look forward to a really awesome post in the near-future). However, listen to Elliot Smith because he's amazing (especially Miss Misery), and I got my record player working.

Without further ado (adu?) I give you my argument essay on arguing:

Arguing
It all starts with a difference of opinion. Then, the paths slowly diverge, the opinion is not only different, but also right. Your opinion, after a short while, is not only right, but all opinions not in accordance with your own must be wrong. Then a passion to enlighten the uninformed or uninterested individual begins. This leads to the vocalization of one’s own opinion (which is most certainly correct). This vocalization is followed by argument, the most trivial pastime of man.
Argumentation is not only the expression of two differing opinions, but the hammering of those views into its opponent. Arguing with an individual is much like yelling at a boulder on the opposite side of a valley; nothing ever actually happens. You are intent on staying where you are and the boulder is not going to move in the foreseeable future. You can yell, scream, cry, deduce, research, and construct the perfect argument of why the boulder should come over to your side of the valley, but all that reaches the boulder’s ears is an unintelligible and irritating buzz. In my personal experience, you could in fact be right. The view might actually be better, the grass greener, and your side is safer from a landside that is hurtling itself down at break-neck speeds towards the boulder. However, the boulder likes its view, is comfortable with the hue of the grass around it, and is pending suicide by landslide.
Man enters all of his arguments with such preconceived ideas in which he has no intent of changing. In fact, in psychology, there are two phenomena called confirmation bias and belief bias. These phenomena are described as man’s tendency to search for information that confirms his preconceptions (confirmation bias) and his tendency for his personal beliefs to distort his logic (belief bias). It is in this mindset that we, as members of the species Homo Sapien, argue. We find illogical conclusions that support our own beliefs, which in turn, concrete them further. It is in this mindset that we watch presidential debates. We already know whom we are going to vote for, we just like the warm fuzzies that come from the self-verification of our preconceived ideas.
“If arguing is so pointless, then why did Martin Luther King Jr. help bring about equality for minorities in The United States?” you ask. I am not downplaying Mr. King’s significance in bringing about equality, far from it in fact. I admire Mr. King for his devotion to Civil Rights and peace. It is with this in mind that I tell you that King never succeeded in arguing his point; rather, he brought attention to the rampant inequality plaguing 1960’s America. Every individual in The United States already had an opinion of Civil Rights, it was just never brought to their attention that they had one. King did this with his large marches and televised speeches. Although many people in America (myself included) believe that Mr. King was a great man who brought about a much-needed change, I must say that he could never have argued the need for Civil Rights. A Klansmen from the Klu Klux Klan did (and still does) not agree with anything he did. They find his logic illogical and completely contradictory to his or her beliefs. Nearly forty years later, there are still Americans who have not changed their opinions about racial equality. These people, much like you and I on this very subject, are boulders unwilling to change. No amount of education or passion about the aforementioned topic will change their views.
It is for these reasons that I argue to you that arguing is pointless. Man never has, and most certainly never will, change his or her mind because of an argument. I am well aware that my argument will never change your mind, instead, it will bring to your attention that my point is either revolutionary or completely idiotic. I can yell, scream, or write countless essays arguing my point, but you, much like myself, will sit on your side of the valley with your preferred hue of grass enjoying the view.