I recently got involved into some heated debated on the net on the blog of some guy that I deem to be egocentric to the point that his reasoning is being obfuscated by his own ego.

The debate is not closed yet, but it was interesting to argue in a blog's commentary context. Here are a few things I learned from this:

• A person's blog is a person's home: get ready to have to argue against him or her supporters.. which is basically all of them because..
  • Most people following someone's personal blog are supporters
  • Most against the blog's owner aren't going to criticize him on his own blog, especially when supporters are already active
  • Some sort of mob is created at some point you will be reminded how many (biased) people are against you
• Human spoken and written language can be interpreted in many ways. Holy wars are still being fought because of different interpretations of some ancient fiction ! (read: The Bible)
• Italians are very proud people (it's an Italian blog). They are very proud but not very self-critical and hardly ever efficient.
• When people get pissed they will reach for fuzzy bits of hearsay to shift the context and make a point out of it: some Italian Japanese cartoon lover told me how I'm being considered a dog by Japanese people.. wow ! I'm a dog !!!
• Some drop in lines can work wonders: "you are talking of something you don't understand, your opinion is wrong"
• Some will refine their language as much as they can to sound more proper (thus more right !)
• Those that don't get much of it, will make cheap jokes about them being sexually active (I see disruption in your force ! Try to focus, timing is everything !)

Honestly I think I'm somewhat egocentric myself. I'm also very confident. I learned my on-line argument lessons and I know that people will fall apart once they get pissed.
Too bad about the "person's blog being a person's home" point... I mean, it's not as fun when you are left alone to fight to the last drop, with nobody supporting your points. But at the same time, even without any acknowledgment I know that I'm drawing cracks into some dudes convictions, and that the crack will grow bigger with time.
I've been stubborn and had o accept things with time, this goes with everyone.. shit.. I hope I won't have to learn someday that Japanese really think of me as a dog ! ...that would be very surreal, especially since I consider myself more Japanese than Italian !

baubau !