When determining the merits of someone’s argument used to persuade you one way or another, remember that “experience” is subjective NOT objective. People would like you to possibly too often believe that their “experience” makes them knowledgeable or all-knowing. Experience should not always be discounted but someone’s experience can be narrow and limited and not open to all other possibilities, alternatives, options and consequences.
Experience can also be the exception and not the rule and may consider only one possibility and not all possibilities like “objective” thinking strives to accomplish before making an informed decision. It is much easier to make decisions based only on experience instead of going to the time consuming task of thinking things through to a logical, rational, objective end. It is ALWAYS easier to attain a subjective, emotional end using mostly only emotional-laden experience as a basis for your decision-making instead of more difficult objective, rational, logical thought.