You are quite right. Tribalism, really, be it in nature religious, ethnic, or even interest group-oriented is humanity's greatest ill. People do shoot other people in the name of religion, economics, ethnicity, crime, you name it.
However, on a day to day basis, most people are reasonably cordial and arguments of the kind seen here and elsewhere on the net do not take place in, say, places of work. I think it is commonly accepted that, for reasons including anonymity, the at-times difficulty of interpreting humor or sarcasm in the coversational nature of email and posting, and the lure of venting one's aggresion in a "safe" place, the Internet often brings out very bad qualities in people. snarlydwarf;165010 Wrote: > Well it is pretty common on Internet forums to have that, especially > where religious discussions take place (and, yes, much of Audiophilia > is religious in nature, with no real way to prove that a $400 cable > makes a system better for someone else or not -- each listener must > determine for themselves what is best for them). > > It does lead to a certain amount of religious fervor: people with > 'lesser' ears are just not seeing the one true way of whatever product > someone else finds appealing, ignoring that they have different brains > and different ears: even if they -did- hear a difference, who is to say > it is for the better? Who is to say it was worth the price difference, > when we have different values? > > Forgetting that our values, tastes, and hearing are all different is > what breaks the discussion. Certainly there are plenty of "your system > or your brain are just inferior" sorts of comments about, but compared > to the rest of the 'net? A lot less than most places. And, alas, > compared to "real life"? I don't see people shooting each other or > blowing themselves up to prove that their God is better than someone > else's. > > Most of the time, people here understand that there is no universal > answer on what is the "best" component, and with no way to prove that > something is universally better there is no way to be "more right" than > someone else, and conversely, no way to be less right. -- lafayette Sweet Home Alabama ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lafayette's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9022 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30882 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
