WHY is it that people think that sending an email to someone who has a web page they don’t agree with is going to do ANY good whatsoever? Like I’m going to read their babbling (after they’ve called me a nut, mind you) and go, “Oh, wow! You’re so right! How STUPID was I to have an opinion that was contrary to yours?! I have seen the light! Hallelujah!”

I dunno. I can’t figure it out. I mean, I see web pages every single day that have stuff in them that I could argue with, but you know what? I don’t. I don’t sit down and write a long, rambling email to the person to “show them the error of their ways” or whatever it is that people are trying to do. I figure opinions are like arseholes, and everyone’s got one, so what’s it to me?

The most amazing thing to me is that the web page this particular person took exception to has a disclaimer at the top, stating that it’s only an offbeat hobby, food for thought, etc. It’s not a dissertation, it’s not a piece of journalism, it’s not a thesis, it’s MY OPINION, based on MY research and as applied to MY life. Other people are free to do whatever they wish, and my web page that so brazenly states my opinion that flies contrary to theirs won’t affect their life at all. My holding counter opinions and daring to express them shouldn’t negatively affect anyone’s life.

Then again, perhaps the answer here is that some people just have no life….

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