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Originally Posted by afa
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?
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No one owes me a thing, explanations or otherwise. You're reading too much into this, as are everyone else who misunderstood my post. (My fault, admittedly. I don't take forum posts seriously and tend to forget that sometimes others do.) What I meant was that when someone is asked a question, for whatever reason, I usually expect them to be able to answer. When they can't, I'm surprised, and I then draw my own and often unflattering conclusions about the lack of an intelligent reply.
For a good parallell, think of how atheists view people with a deep religious faith. No matter how justified that faith is, nothing they say, no matter how they phrase it, can convince a devoted atheist that someone who has a deep faith in a deity is not delusional and unintelligent. And no matter how either side pushes, they both think the other is wrong, and that they have a right to try and convince them.
Given the way Apple market their products, the whole religion parable actually seems fitting. And yes, that was a joke. Back off with those blowtorches!
