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

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I know exactly how you feel. 'Til recently, I hadn't run into one of those for quite awhile.

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

I'm with you and not even writing in the same genre.

I'll be ranting on my LJ too, as soon as I get some time.

Jeez. 40 years. Give it up already.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Grudge-carrying, it's a new Olympic sport. ;)

[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.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

I'm going to guess this is in regard to a comment made on a list, right? Another reason I stay in the warm embrace of Live Journal.

[franciskerst.livejournal.com]

Share the feeling and have followed the thread. For once I controlled my biting habit and don't feel better either. It was more stupid as allowed, and a little mean too, not to say somehow coward... (It's not me; I just happened to hear another guy who...)