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All of this is true. Though in many cases when people "are doing it wrong" you find not that they have opinions opposed to you, you find that they don't have any consistent opinion at all. Which makes it OK to stick with your version until you find something better.
I'd mention that in many cases the best thing to do might be to lay off the topic for some time, work on other problems, improve your overall thinking, check facts known from respectable science, wait for your feelings of attachment to die, and revisit the original topic with a fresh perspective much later.
This can be repeated many times, and I guess it's actually the core of my description of caring about "pastures". This is a kind of a meta-technique that seems to be central to not becoming "stuck" in stupidity.
Well, they might not be expressing any consistent opinion, but if they are doing the same thing over and over, then there is a clear implied position (similar to revealed preferences).
Might be -- unless you need to make a decision in the near future. If the topic is something you can ponder for a long time without needing to come to any conclusions, well, the question that comes to my mind is "Are you sure it's important?" :-/ (yes, I know that's not applicable to science)