Originally posted by milefile
This is a great question. But I wouldn't answer it here, at least not today. This topic gets to the heart of what makes people tick and their most closely held beliefs. Those who are comfortable and secure in their beliefs don't need to argue them all the time; a spirited discussion is another matter. Unfortunately some GTP'ers only want to argue for the sake of arguing, playing semantics games, tricks... Socrates wannabees. It's too bad they won't use that sharpness for something other than trying to make others look "wrong." I've seen it over and over. They want to argue back and forth over the minutia, but as soon as somebody actually contributes something thought provoking and/or meaningful, silence befalls them. Their silence says more than their posts ever could.
So basically... sometimes it just doesn't seem worth the effort to think, compose a response, read it, make it say exactly what you mean, and then have an army of insects infest and cheapen it.