At this point it's got nothing to do with the damn post anymore. It's got everything to do with why I LiveJournal. I am not some great blogger. I am just a ranty, easily angered, easily distracted twentysomething who enjoys using LJ to keep up with friends and acquaintances on my work breaks. I do not use LJ as some great learn-all-about-the-universe thing. I do not have fucking time for that. I have expressed to you on numerous occasions that my LJ is not the proper place for showy debates, in large part because I do this for fun. I'm not under any illusions that I'm going to have any bright insights or that I'm going to have any influence on anyone whatsoever. You have ignored my request not to have pyrotechnical debates in my personal LJ numerous times. There are plenty of spots on the Internet which would welcome this type of discourse; why must you persist in staging it here?