> you may have already outsourced too much of your thinking to them

i'd think that instead of just giving in and reacting with a cheap insult, highlighting the unreasonable leap in rhetoric might be a bit more persuasive. to be specific:

> I don't understand why people are pushing back so hard on making the world a better place.

"making the world a better place" is not what's receiving the pushback. on the contrary, kind of the whole argument is that the current developments are short sighted, and that they will leave leave the world in a worse place on the long term.

and then one can agree or disagree about that, but at least then we'd not be arguing strawmans anymore, nor approaching increasingly childish insults