A predatory tactic for “winning” arguments is the aggressive interruption of the other person before they can finish their thought (or sentence). This is commonly followed by an emotionalistic, childish badgering of them into submission, disengagement or hostility.
Use of this tactic means that the conversation isn’t actually a conversation – it’s rhetorical bullying. A dark-age show of psychological force meant to manipulate and dominate. A non-physical form of violence which creates the need for its physical form.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
The disturbing frequency of aggressive interruption reflects an ongoing degeneration of dialogue… and by extension of civilization in general. Fueled by a perfect storm of epidemic immaturity, unjustified confidence, inadequate attention to detail and a fanatical/nigh-psychotic competitiveness, the stage is set for something truly terrible.
Interrupters by their very nature cannot be wise or right any meaningful portion of the time. Their childish over-excitability causes them to consistently miss critical masses of information that would otherwise allow them to have any sort of complete, contextualized, enlightened understandings. Their interruption of others marks them not only as socially-diseased, but as some of the last people in the world anyone should ever listen to or take seriously.
People who argue by interruption are and need to be recognized as socially dysfunctional. They should be isolated from society and matured, educated in the tenets of listening, patience and reciprocity. Until that happens they represent real, fundamental threats to social stability and ultimately evolution itself.
These are the people who need cancelling. This is behavior we need to grow out of ASAP to create a better world.
New rule: if someone is constantly interrupting and badgering the person they’re in a discussion with, their opinions are invalid and the discussion is over until they calm down and grow up.