It's impossible to convince most people of even the most obvious truths. The wisest path is to fake agreement, keep your thoughts for yourself and move away ASAP.
Online it seems you can get away with more honest talk without consequences. Or at least it used to. Now it's getting more like offline.
> It's impossible to convince most people of even the most obvious truths.
You should maybe ask yourself why you need to convince them.
> The wisest path is to fake agreement, keep your thoughts for yourself and move away ASAP.
That's not wise, that's dishonest to the other person and to yourself. The last part (avoiding the other person) is obviously a completely valid option, but only one of several.
For some, agreement is submission and defeat, which cannot be tolerated. So word games happen.
Word games are a big thing here, in the land of words, disconnected from reality. We can argue literally anything. Black is white, up is down, desirable is undesirable, disease is health.
Thus we get a lot of bullshit.
Science is one great shovel for clearing that away.
Not sure why you think I want to convince anybody. The original poster asked why people seems so conformist IRL, as oppossed to online. I just explained that most people learned that being Don Quixote is dangerous.
Online it seems you can get away with more honest talk without consequences. Or at least it used to. Now it's getting more like offline.