Because I'm irritated...

[leethet]

...and this is the best place to vent that.



I'm irritated by people who pretend to be offering a rational argument about something they don't like, while they are in fact irrationally and ignorantly hostile to it, have never open mindedly examined it, know nothing of it, wish to know nothing of it and use as evidence against it the random opinions of other uninformed foes. How can you ever hope to comprehend something or someone when all you feel toward it is contempt based on no actual information, something you can't be bothered to learn about but can only be bothered to mock? How can you stand back and accept only misinformation and propaganda from admitted foes of something and pretend you have anything like a rational opinion about it?

Hm. I don't feel much better.

Comments

[dinahmt.livejournal.com]

It's a shame that there are people who think their opinion is the only valid one so therefore everyone else must be wrong. There is no way you can convince such people to look at things from another perspective. Better to feel sorry for them for their narrow-mindedness.

[leethet.livejournal.com]

You're dead right, Di. I wanted to continue yelling on Channel W but took a deep breath, realized I wasn't going to change any minds, felt also that the poster in question's position and poor arguments in support of it were pretty evident to all ...

(but I still had to come here to bitch...) :)