"My answer to the original question: like everything else, it's about control (and sometimes manipulation) of others."
Bingo!
That's basically it.
Sometimes but not always a sinister thing. Motives will vary. Could be a humanitarian gesture to help another, or could have a pure profit incentive, or other motives as well perhaps.
The scientific method is essentially the means by which an argument is quantified to determine to what extent, if any, facts support a particular conclusion or not.
Most people are not scientists, and science is challenged to support certain conclusions that people arrive at. So people simply argue when needed as a result in order to get some one else to reach a conclusion similar to theirs.
No way to avoid it. It's a natural thing. Often futile in the end however in many cases. Many arguments that are seemingly sound based on observations are not bulletproof.
Bingo!
That's basically it.
Sometimes but not always a sinister thing. Motives will vary. Could be a humanitarian gesture to help another, or could have a pure profit incentive, or other motives as well perhaps.
The scientific method is essentially the means by which an argument is quantified to determine to what extent, if any, facts support a particular conclusion or not.
Most people are not scientists, and science is challenged to support certain conclusions that people arrive at. So people simply argue when needed as a result in order to get some one else to reach a conclusion similar to theirs.
No way to avoid it. It's a natural thing. Often futile in the end however in many cases. Many arguments that are seemingly sound based on observations are not bulletproof.