julius wrote:One good way to kill an interesting argument is to start commenting on the argument itself instead of actually debating about it.
Another good way to kill a good argument is to continue to mischaractarize (straw-man) what the other person said as you keep changing your argument, yourself. Commentary on the argument, itself, is absolutely necessary when that happens.
I don't care if we disagree; I DO care if you mischaractarize what I wrote and then mock it as if I wrote it. But I'm starting to care less about even that.
The crux of our difference lies in the fact that you cannot believe that people would dance to music they don't like, whereas I have solid evidence that many, many people dance to music they don't like. Whether you think they are a "few" or "nonexistent" really doesn't matter, because you have mentioned indirectly time and again that what you believe is surely an absolute.
I never wrote that I can't believe that people would dance to music they don't like: that is a far more broad proposition than saying that almost everyone on the dance floor dances to slow music even though they are "invisibly unhappy" and don't like the music. I wrote that the so-called phenomena of "[a dance floor] full of invisibly unhappy dancers" dancing to slow music they don't like does not make sense (the Chewbacca defense: "it... does not... make sense"): 1) "invisibly unhappy" allows you to project your opinions on others; 2) it flies in the face of my experience. Some people might dance to slower music even though they prefer faster music, but that is the exception that proves the rule, not refutes it. (It proves the rule through its infrequency combined with what happens when faster music is played and the floor empties).
Moreover, people tend to dance to what they like and develop their dancing accordingly. Many people develop their dancing to more moderate tempos and don't bother with learning or developing their dancing to faster music: whether it is because they are too lazy or because they aren't hyperactive, or because they are unathletic or because slower music gives you more room to improvise... it happens. They don't dance to more moderate tempoed music even though they are "invisibly unhappy;" they do so because that is their preference. Like it or not, that is their preference.
