Question for Christian Ballbags here

[Esquilax]

Esquilax, Rich is not displaying ego so much as expressing his dismay. I often feel the same way. Both of us have been called liars and worse. But we are big boys and can handle it. There's plenty of reflexive dismissals to go around.

Which I would accept, if that wasn't his only note whenever someone disagrees.

I guess what frustrates me about it is that it totally stifles any kind of continuing discourse; he presents his point, someone disagrees, and instead of providing additional information or a refutation, he races to condemn the person doing the disagreeing... and then that's the end. There's no way to debate a person whose sole response is not to defend his argument, but to attack anyone who disagrees. That's also why it feels like ego; at a certain point it stops seeming like a point he's making and starts feeling like a defense mechanism from a person who can't imagine his ideas not being totally convincing.