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I think every philosophizing person goes through a phase where they feel compelled to air their opinions and to jab at the weaknesses of alternate viewpoints. I crossed a threshold where I realized that a person will simply believe X or believe Y, and strenuous debate will do little to change their perspective -- and will probably just incite anger and frustration.
And the thing about the Internet is that there's a constant influx of people with ideas that have not yet matured. You can explain to them the rest of the details, but it really won't click until they tackle the reading material for themselves. Which they might never do anyway. In the long run, it's simply a lot more pleasant to shrug at malformed or outlandish ideas, as long as they aren't inflicting unnecessary pain. So I mostly only debate against ideas that threaten what I view to be positive living.
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"The idea that money doesn't buy you happiness is a lie put about by the rich, to stop the poor from killing them." -- Michael Caine
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