Therefore, being arrogant and a jerk is often a inexorable outcome from where I stand, for truth must be defended no matter what.
I started to see where I went wrong. I wish I had known better and understood sooner. But that's the nature of arguing on the internet via posts. If we had been face to face, someone would have pointed out my error ie, I took P(A|B) to be P(B|A), very quickly in a convincing manner.
So are you saying it's Sol's fault for not being convincing enough? /s
Read through the thread again, now that you know what your mistake was. Multiple people tried in multiple ways to explain it to you. I honestly don't know why you listened to me. I merely restated PathToFire's statements.
Wanting to defend the truth is noble, but you need to be absolutely sure you have the truth. And that is where the humility comes in, because you can never be absolutely sure. You need to be able to say to yourself, "I'm pretty sure I'm right, but there's a chance I'm wrong. And the best way to find out if I'm wrong is by listening to other people and trying to understand it from their point of view."
The problem was not the internet vs face-to-face. The problem was listening.