ChainsawAsh said:VINH, I think everyone keeps challenging you this way is because you keep acting as if your opinion is gospel and anyone that disagrees with you is an idiot, which makes you look like a dick.
And all art is subjective - I really don't see how anyone could think otherwise.
People don't like me because I believe in my opinions? Because we're all supposed to have no confidence in our opinions? Or hypocritically pretend we have no confidence in our opinions, just to avoid offending anyone? I have no problem with people having confidence in their opinions, but I do take offense at anybody acting like it's wrong for me to have confidence in mine.
As it stands, a lot of people here act like they think their opinions are god's truth, so I don't see why I should get stick for being confident in my opinions.
I do not act like people who disagree with me are idiots, unless they give me some sort of trouble, in which case I may lose patience. However, some posters act like I'M an idiot, and quite without provocation too.
I don't think the trouble I get is because I supposedly act like my opinion is gospel and act like other people are idiots. Because I have posted stuff that had nothing to do with putting my opinion versus the opinions of anybody else here and I still got rotten treatment. I once started a thread to point out a fault in the prequels. My aim was to encourage everyone to enjoy themselves having a little fun at the expense of the prequels. People lined up to mock me and one poster in particular got highly insulting. My crime? To dare to think differently from them. I know why I get shit. It's because I dare to confidently express opinions that are based on different thinking from the majority's. People who think differently are supposed to be all timid and doubtful about it and maybe apologize. Intolerance for difference is one of humanity's defining traits, as is dislike of that which a person does not understand.
If somebody feels I'm a dick (as you put it), whether for being confident in my views or being confident in thinking that differs from the majority or based on some bizarre misconception that I treat people like idiots without provocation, that feeling they have that I'm a dick is based on their misunderstanding of me, their misunderstanding of someone who thinks differently from them, and it should not be held against me.
ChainsawAsh said:And all art is subjective - I really don't see how anyone could think otherwise.
Art is far from being all subjective, but I'm not going to debate about it, because such debates tend to prove especially pointless.