I read that as satire or trying to bait people (tabs vs spaces etc).
If they intended it to be a serious argument for 0-based indexes, they should not have admitted to being less intelligent than most 5-year-olds.
I'd say you never actually tried. Your argument was unserious.
It was simply: "1-based indexing confuses me". Even if people try to treat it as an actual argument, it's weak. Spanish confuses me, should Spanish speakers switch to English on my behalf? No. I should learn Spanish, get an interpreter, or use tools to help me converse with them. And 1-based indexing is much simpler than Spanish. If it actually confuses you then something else is going on. Every 5-year-old I know understands it, that's a low bar to beat for an adult.
Go see Dijkstra's argument for 0-based indexing, that's an actual argument. Yours was not.
eesmith•4mo ago