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While we're waiting for the next instalment of U.K. 'TROLLS: KICKING THE BUTTS (OF BUTT-'EADS), permit me to make a brief detour.
Sometimes I despair of some of my fellow bloggers. Presenting themselves as fair, open-minded enquirers after truth who welcome all forms of diverse opinion to theirs (in regard to subjects on which they themselves have invited comment), they then reveal themselves to be biased, small-minded extremists who don't really want to hear what others have to say - unless it's to tell them just how right they are on whatever they happen to be banging on about at the moment.
If someone is going to raise a controversial issue on their blog then they should be prepared to receive some controversial replies - ones they might even be offended by. However, I've often found that when a person claims to find a point of view offensive, what they're actually offended by is the idea of someone having an opinion contrary to their own. (How very dare they!)
The fact is, some people just don't like to be disagreed with - especially when they're simply not very good at defending their propositions to begin with. And that's regardless of whether said proposition is absurd, questionable, or entirely reasonable. One thing I've learned from bloggerland is that, very often, when someone asks a question, the only answer they're interested in hearing is the one upon which they've already decided. It seems that everyone else's purpose is simply to support their fragile and insecure belief in themselves.
Feel free to agree or disagree - I won't be offended.
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(Okay, so hardly a 'klassic', but I gotta post something.)
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