Fools

I came armed with logic, and she came “armed” with a plentitude of stubbornness.  It turned out to be no contest.  She won, and the competition was not something you would even call close.  Stubbornness trumps logic every time even though this answer is not at all intuitive.  It’s probably why bullheads and carp easily eclipse regal trout and gamefish whenever the different species share the same waters, if only for as long as it takes for the bottom-dwellers to kick some Pisces ass and drive the daintier sport fish elsewhere.  Abject mulishness makes no sense from an empirical perspective, yet it invariably prevails over more astute human qualities given enough time.