[romwell]

The point here is that nobody owes you a course in art history which would answer all of your why questions when many such courses are available.

You're not entitled to free education from us, particularly - against your will ("convince me"), when there are many resources out there available to you.

We can point out why your opinions are bad (they are grounded in too little knowledge of what you're opining on), we can point out where to get more knowledge.

If you want to learn, you will.

The saddest thing here is not even arrogance, but lack of curiosity.

[fluoridation]

So you want something out of me, but are not willing to explain why I should do it. Okay, then I'm not compelled to do it. I can simply tell you to piss off. I'm not entitled to receive an education from you and you're not entitled to have me not write stupid things.

[romwell]

>I can simply tell you to piss off. I'm not entitled to receive an education from you and you're not entitled to have me not write stupid things.

The difference is that I'm not asking you to not write stupid things, but you ask me to explain things to you.

>So you want something out of me

That would be projection. You want something out of other people (an explanation), whereas we want you to get something for yourself.

We get absolutely nothing if you learn more about the subject you opine on. You will.

>I can simply tell you to piss off.

You certainly can. You're not in the right forum for that though.

I did write an explanation up the thread - long enough to not fit into the limits of a single comment on HN (a hilarious limitation for 2024, but I digress).

Please read it.