I've been following another random thread on YT, and I've discovered this one fool who thinks he's a philosopher, in that he keeps coming back to what is seen, versus what is known. The thing that I don't get, and I can't understand how anyone would even think this, is that he keeps suggesting that the entire historic record, all of history, is fake, and that nothing can be known because no one saw everything with their own eyes, and even if they did, it can't be trusted, because the person reading the account wasn't a witness of the event.
In addition to the standard mobile goalposts, the handwaving, the flat ignoring of legit questions, and all the subtle reframing of the questions being posed, this guy is frustrating.
It really is a waste of time and effort trying to argue with such a person, because their disconnect with anything even remotely resembling reality is so total. The Stupid can manifest itself in weird and unexpected ways.
Try arguing this: WW2 was real because there are people who are presently still alive who personally witnessed it, but WW1 is fake because there aren't (the last surviving participant was Florence Green, a WAAF, who died in 2012, aged 110).
1. Was WW1 real before she died and did it only become fake after her death?
2. Some time around 2045 onwards, will WW2 will go from being real to fake when the last WW2 participant dies?
If you can't convince them they are wrong by making them think about the answers to these questions, then you should stop wasting your time because they are beyond any hope or help.
To paraphrase Douglas Adams, The Stupid has a firm grip on them in exactly the same way that reality doesn't.
