So, why are you preaching to the fishes, then?
Well, I'm not trying to covert them. And I'm also not using them as a practice for trying to convince people in the future. I am maintaining the state proper to humans. An active engagement in language, commixed with moral belief. I am such that the world must remain an active proposition. And the state of that active proposition, the definition of it in patterns or reliable differentiation, as expressed in language that comes from me, is both expressive and tied to specific things in the world. If someone does find my thoughts persuasive, its likely because I set out to think, to reckon with the world in a slightly desperate sense, before I set out to express, signify, or persuade. My attempt to do so is likely more persuasive and useful than any results I might think myself to have achieved.
It's just a slightly desperate lunge towards the light before we vanish. To do so is what we are.