If we delve even deeper, we'll see that most disagreements are really because one feels that if their truth "loses", then that reduces the value of one's persona - who has attached itself to several of these truths. It's like the truth goes down, my persona goes down - so I need to defend it viciously. The paradoxical thing about this, is that the online persona has less to lose compared to the "real life" one.
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