> Btw, why is it that every time I express my opinion that we should 
> respect other people and not make fun of them nor insult them, I get
>  strong opposition? This is something that always keeps puzzling me.
> 

Because instead of simply expressing your opinion for what it is, you
prefer build a complex argumentation relying on rather fuzzy,
ill-defined, or downright wrong ideas, phrasing it as if you were the
sole tenant of every truth in the world, insulting quite a few people
and their convictions in the process.

Because, when people try to explain you something, you are not even
trying to understand what could be true or useful in what they are
saying, but instead seeking how they are wrong in every possible way,
generating lengthy arguments in the process, just for the apparent sake
of finally seeing someone saying that you are right. On whatever minor
irrelevant detail.

And of course every such discussion ends exactly like this, you say that
people on the Internet do not understand you, that they are seeing bad
intentions that are not there, and ultimately that you don't care about
anyone else's opinion. Yeah, because as you say it happens to you all
the time, so it must be a problem with others. Well, if this point of
view makes you feel good...

Frankly I've been reading three such discussions recently, and I can
remember several of your "duels" with Darren and others before... And
each time I'm lamenting at how you use up that much of your intelligence
struggling in lost battles you started yourself.

Not that I'm hoping you change in any way, but that is how I see things...

-- 
Vincent

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