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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
See, this is exactly what he's talking about. Seriously?! Can't someone look at a product, decided they LIKE the product and then buy the product without justifying it to you? So if you don't agree with their taste or decision making skills you feel you have the right to mock them?
That's not cool and it promotes the type of uncivil behavior that happens here so often.
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Agreed.
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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
But you're a lot more likely to be left alone if you can show that some thinking went into the decision, and not just feelings and habits. That's life, and that's not something that is about to change anytime soon.
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The problem with your line of thinking, SF, is that it sounds elitist. Sure, Apple fanboys can sound elitist, too, but comments like these are no less so, albeit in a different manner.
You assume that your reasons for buying Product X are somehow 'better' than others' for buying Apple Product X. That is, to be frank, ridiculous. Everyone has their own reasons for purchasing whatever they want to purchase. More importantly -- and this is the real issue here -- they don't owe you a damned thing. It's perplexing to me why you feel that you are somehow entitled to an explanation or justification for
someone else's purchasing decisions.
Is this simply a product of environment? Do you live in a town/society/family where people are constantly questioning your choices? Why did you buy that particular dress, and not the one next to it? Black shoes? Why not really, really, really dark brown? Why those glasses? Why do you walk that way, and not different?
You're acting as if your approach of demanding justifications from others is somehow the logical and natural thing to do. You're wrong. It's not. The world would be a terribly annoying place to live if everyone did that, don't you think?
P.S. One could easily construe your reaction to Mrs. Joseph as "blowing the gasket" just as much as you thought of hers. People in glass houses and all that.
*EDIT* Ah, I see Luqman has come in and made essentially my point in a far more succinct manner. Um, thanks.