> To put it another way, I consider emotional arguments about programming > languages so unimportant that they pale in comparison to encouraging my > daughter to eat a healthy breakfast; starving kids in other countries > didn't even enter my mind.
emotional areguments are poor arguments, regardless of the subject. i'm not sure though that i follow that x is "more important" than y implies that i should not be bothered about potentially important topics within y. - erik
