I think he just desperately wants everybody to think he is smart, and he is under the false impression that the way to achieve this is by talking down to everyone. But really he just looks like an asshole, and I don't think anybody here 'admires his intelligence'.

And as far as I'm concerned, Darth_Ender's point is INCREDIBLY easy to grasp. He thinks X is wrong. He wishes you wouldn't do X, but he admits that as a free human being you have the right to do all the X you want and he won't stop you, as much as he wishes you would stop yourself. Therefore he pities you as you are up dancing all night and drowning yourself with too much water.