this is a radical take but sometimes when everybody is telling you you're wrong about something you are, in fact, actually wrong about something
Galbraith nailed it: "Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
I've noticed a tread over the years where people sometimes think because a take is annoying everyone uniformly that they're just boldly challenging conventions, but more often than not you're just wrong or you phrased your argument poorly
Nah, you need to double down until you work yourself into an inescapable corner and delete all your accounts in a fit of panicked rage.
A silly application, but reminds me of a recent reddit thread where a lady was asking everyone why her pullet was crowing. It was obvious to any experienced chicken tender that it was just a late blooming cockerel. She angrily doubled and tripled down b/c older hens are known to crow. Very amusing.
Again, the world seems exhausting for people that are insistent they're right all the time about everything. "Maybe I goofed" is extremely freeing.
Roger Ebert standing his ground against the brigaded ranks of Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen fans on what constituted a "bad movie" is one of the few exceptions to this maxim; and even then I think he acknowledged the fans' passion made for a different experience of the film.
Some folks have a hard time takin' the L.