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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
No. It was a bean/no bean debacle. 
I don't even care if chili "hardliners" don't want to call something "chili". That's their call. I just despise seeing/hearing them try to force others to abide by their silly personal cooking/naming strictures. |
Many programming forums adopted the stopper "Religious Argument" to be invoked in such cases. The underlying beliefs resided on an emotional level and were not amenable to rational argument. (The canonical example was whether Vi or Emacs was the One True Editor on Unix systems.)
Stuff like that can be fun to argue about as long as everyone is aware there's no one right answer and agreement won't be reached.
Of course, the folks for whom stuff like this is a religious belief won't comprehend the idea there
isn't one right answer...
You can find similar fun among barbecue fanatics talking about the best sauce.
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Dennis