When someone quits a debate, accuse them of believing in blind faith?

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john lai

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I am very persistent when I debate with people. I explore every possible angle. Some people say I'm just being difficult, when in actuality, I need to explore every scenario to 99% completion. Even things that are common sense need to be explored, because all too often we take things for granted when they are actually fallacies.

Because of my thoroughness and persistence, people get annoyed and withdraw from my debates.

Can I accuse these quitters of acting on blind faith when they believe things they refuse to rationalize? These friends are very left on the spectrum and rational, so accusing them of following a faith will annoy the hell out of them, and hopefully make them debate with me again.
 
In most cases it's blind faith; in other cases it's probably negligence, meaning they just don't care enough to consider it when it's not their obligation to do so. But you're right. In mindlessly taking things for granite, bad things can happen, and sheeple can be led off of cliffs by often questionable but generally accepted masters and popular customs. I'm a firm believer that everything should be questioned. We shouldn't just rely on the presupposition that since past generations have done things we have to do them now without questioning it.
 
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