Over the course of my early life, I used to always get into arguments with people whenever I hear them say something stupid. Almost always, the argument would go something like this:
Hitman1: My stomach hurts
Someone: Drink 7-Up
Hitman1: why?
Someone: 7-Up cures upset stomachs
Hitman1: No it doesn’t… 7-Up is just Water, Sugar, and CO2 and none of these do anything to stomach aches
Someone: No really, it always helped me and I know many that helped them too.
Hitman1: No it didn’t, your pain must have gone away because the cause went away, not because of 7Up
Someone: you’re very stubborn and think you know it all; explain to me then why did everyone who had stomach aches and drank 7Up became better?
The above dialog is an example of many that happened to me; and on everyone of them I end up with high frustration and blood pressure levels. The idiots begin the argument with a stupid statement, and then would back it off with something even more stupid leaving you going in circles with him. Time after time I would fall in these arguments trying to teach or correct stupid believes, until one day I read this quote:
"Never argue with an idiot; they drag you down to their level then beat you with experience" — Unknown
"oh my god this just couldn’t be any more right" I told myself. All this time I was wasting my time and my nervous system with idiots. Whenever you argue with an idiot, you risk bringing yourself down to their level and then worse, you get beat by their experience in stupid statements and believes making you look like the fool. After that, my dialogs with idiots evoloved to this:
Someone: whenever you have a skin cut, put lemon juice on it to heal it faster
Hitman1: wow, that’s a nice tip.. thank you
Someone: you’re welcome
Viola, I’d walk away from the idiot without wasting a single calorie uselessly trying to explain to him how stupid what he said is.
So should we ignore all stupid statements? is everyone who say a stupid thing is always one who cannot listen to reason? No… one should make a judgment on who and who not to argue with. My judgment is usually based on how stupid the statement is. For example: my devilish nature just cannot resist keeping the above idiot torture himself with lemon juice on his cuts