Does being elite automatically make you right?

[Vlady]

I do not fully understand how this chat turned into a flame war between me and a random person I was talking to in a fate group but out of the blue the statement was made he has made it to Bahamut Coil's phase 2 and therefore is right because I cannot be right since I have never played the high end of FF 14 before.

The chat was about how scholar shield's act as a form of extra hit points that are taken off first from any damage that goes through a person's mitigation mechanics. He stated that Scholar shield is mitigation that reduces damage taken. I said it is in essence extra hit points temporarily added to that of a person's life.

Does being elite automatically make you right is the question that I have been brooding over. Someone who has a gun in his hand tells another person 2+2 makes 5 should be wrong but does that power or strength associated with being a high end raider instead make the stronger one right over the weaker or newer player?