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And another thing, try posting with a name, because I regard anonymous arguers as cowardly and I prefer not to engage them.

It’s easy to be brave when you don’t have to worry about the consequences of your actions.

My comparison involved two specific tribes to be compared. A tribe that is productive and adds to a community is superior to a tribe that accomplishes nothing but also actively seeks to just ruin everyone elses lives.



We are talking about fictional examples here, so I’m not making a strawman because I implied the tribes I made up were collectively exemplified by their accomplishments, both stating one example accomplished something while another accomplished nothing, or in the first case, were trolls, who are indefensibly the scourges of a society. If anything, you are turning me into a strawman by telling me what my own arguments meant(erroneously) and injecting your own assumptions into them.

Your use of that comic also implies you are inferring that I am overlooking my own flaws, which I know I have, but that is irrelevant, and is borderline ad-hominem.

That's understandable. But I just don't have an account here. I always browsed this site anonymously and probably always will. It's not about cowardice or anything, that's just the way I like to use Derpibooru or the Internet as a whole really.Come on now, you're taking this way too personally. Just because we have different opinions doesn't mean we have to harbor resentment against each other. I'm here for civil discussion, not to pick up a fight with you.Let's forget about the whole "troll ruining everything for everyone" thing. A fandom is built around fan discussions and relies a lot on fan-created content, memes etc. That's the very point of a fandom. Why would you even call a group composed only of trolls a fandom since trolls are inherently destructive? Wouldn't that just be an anti-fandom?And again, should we really compare two tribes based on their accomplishments only?What if the "good" tribe (inhabiting a large village) full of accomplishments also happens to be composed for the most part of lazy villagers contributing in no way to the success and development of their own tribe and are just leeching on the unexpected success of a minority?What if the "worse" tribe" (inhabiting a small hamlet) with little to no accomplishments just happens to be younger or smaller in size thus may be less inventive, but villagers also happen to be more united, work together and create an overall positive atmosphere?Even better question: are these even worth comparing?Little misunderstanding here. I wasn't pointing this comic at you. I just wanted to point out the way people tend to overlook the flaws of their own group/fandom while impartially condemning those of another. Click on that comic, it'll lead you to a Wikipedia article on the subject of fundamental attribution errors. This is something one MUST know about when attempting to compare statistics or groups of people with as less bias as possible.