In M-world unlike in your world, to sit someone down and force them to return to a conversation which I fluffed (perhaps years before) far from being thought contrived, is on the contrary demanded.
In your world, I ask you, why is there such a premium put on the ability to counter a conversational argument now? In your world, once you have lost a conversation - that's it! Regardless of who was right or wrong there is no revisiting allowed. I cannot call up an old conversational partner a year after the issue and say - "you know that talk we were having, well the reason you were wrong is . . . " I cannot do that. For the move strikes you as artificial. The conversation at the time grew organically in a natural way - and now I am trying to stride you back to it because now (too late) I have suddenly come up with a suitable rebuttal? You can't even remember the occasion.
Not in M-world. Here the matter is dealt with differently. In M-world a man is obliged to revisit a conversation if summoned to do so by another man. We have uniformed officials to march him there; or to pick him up and carry him there.
We have no premium on being in the moment and having the presence of mind to float on the spot a knock-down rebuttal from the depths of our memory. We are encouraged to present the rebuttal ten years later if so wished. It is normal here. We have been made comfortable with it.
Obviously there are benefits to our world over yours. Obviously. Wrong or babyish beliefs are exposed far more often here. We are required to quote our sources for the 'evidence' that we bring, and it is checked . . . albeit after a wait. And thus the general stock of thinking is straighter than yours. That's obvious.
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