I enjoy the debate. It keeps the blood flowing. I like thinking out of the box. I'm a contrarian. It causes me to question my beliefs as well as yours and think of alternatives. It's a way of being creative. It helps my photography. Sometimes I take a position that is contrary to my beliefs to help put the spotlight on issues. If everyone is just agreeing with each other, everyone learns nothing. We're all preaching to the choir. Attack my logic and facts. That's fine. But when you attack me with name-calling, the whole conversation degrades. You're a smart person. Most people here are also smart and make fine points. It just would be better if we kept it intellectual rather than degrading into the depths as often happens on social forums. I think you agree with this and would have a great chat over a beer or two.
I hate to burst your bubble, but nothing you have said during the course of the last twelve months could even remotely be considered to constitute thinking outside the box. Your positions, and your responses, in the rare instances you actually respond rather than change the subject, are entirely predictable and come from within a very small box indeed.
Whataboutism followed by three straw men, for a total of four logical fallacies in a single line. Seven logical fallacies if you include the three false statements embedded in the straw men.
You cannot have a rational conversation with an irrational person.
Unfirtuantely, you proved my point. Can't resist insulting people.
Not so much an insult as an observation that your self-assessment is mistaken.
You remind me of Canon lovers who insist Nikon owners are nuts and just don't get it.
If you had told me you were a fast miler in high school, and I asked you what your best time was, and you told me 6:23, it would not be an insult if I told you that you were not a fast miler. It would be an observation that your self-assessment was mistaken.
It is the same here. You have told us you like to think outside the box. I have read hundreds of your posts over the last twelve months and have seen no evidence of you thinking outside the box. What you say is predictable and repetitive, and arises out of a narrow range of thought. So it is not an insult when I tell you you don't think outside the box. It is an observation that your self-assessment is mistaken.
Your Canon/Nikon comment is a non sequitur. If that is what my comments remind you of, then you have completely missed the point, as is frequently the case.
No need to respond. I know what you are going to say, and I am done engaging with you. The weather is nice, I get my second vaccine dose on Friday, and I expect life to begin to return to normal. I wish everyone prosperity and good health.