Some of us prefer compromise to confrontation. Sadly, others who prefer confrontation are not always willing to let us compromise and demand we take one side or another. That's the time when confrontation wins out over compromise for me and one way or another I tell those people to fuck right off. It's not a complicated philosophy, but it seems to work for me, especially on the internet.
There was a time when I wasted time and energy arguing the fuck out of things that really had no bearing on my life.
There was a time when I became aware that I was getting physically and emotionally upset with people I'd never met, and was never likely to meet.
Eventually I came to know that it really wasn't worth letting a bunch of know-nothing, ignorant, argumentative twats have a negative effect on my reality. I suppose you'd say I grew up. I know I certainly would.
All of that doesn't mean I never argue online of course. It just means that if I don't argue with you then you know that I simply can't be arsed because I think that either you, your argument, or most probably both are not worth wasting time and keystrokes on. You should probably consider it a polite suggestion to "fuck off and get a life."
My wife has the answer to which of us is right or wrong at any given time. She (she tells me) is always right. There are just times when she's more right than others. She's right of course, just not as right as she thinks she is.
