# begbert2 cannot debate like an adult

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/begbert2-cannot-debate-like-an-adult/506167
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 12, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/begbert2-cannot-debate-like-an-adult/506167 "2009-08-12T13:02:02Z")
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### Author: ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/begbert2-cannot-debate-like-an-adult/506167/8 "2009-08-13T16:29:10Z")

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Ah, my first pitting! I am now truly a man.

There’s really not much point getting into this in depth because nobody but **Mijin** _cares_ about the way this “debate” progressed (to use the term loosely) - but I thought I’d provide a little clarification as to why his “in the correct context: no creative editing here” reconstructed exchanges make so little sense.

The answer is, naturally, all the creative editing here he used to get things out of the correct context.

For example, in his “Example 1”, the exchange didn’t go:

Mijin: I of course meant internal rewards, that is, “good” emotions.  
begbert2: Then why did you ask a question you already knew the answer to?

It _actually_ went:

> [@Why are we alive?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-we-alive/504200/100):
>
> I of course meant internal rewards, that is, “good” emotions.  
> I’m well aware of your position.

> [@Why are we alive?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-we-alive/504200/101):
>
> Then why did you ask a question you already knew the answer to?

Makes a lot more sense when you don’t snip for incomprehensibility, doesn’t it? In the extremely unlikely event anybody cares, I’m sure they’d find that if one reads the original text rather than the **Mijin** patented multicolor cliff’s notes version, that things will tend to make a lot more sense.

Not that you’d gain much by reading it, mind - Mijin exhausted any of a semblance of a point he had long before we got to the posts he’s mangling here in this OP. The hijack continued as long as it did because I let him bait me with his juvinile asininity for _far_ too long. (I would apologize to the universe for that, but frankly it’s the _least_ of my crimes. Plus being rebellious and unrepentant is cool. Gets more chicks.)

So yeah, **Mijin** is a juvenile asshat who simply can’t _stand_ that I “beat” him in that debate (the victory apparently being determined by who got the last word, which was me, with the one-line post [“Goodbye”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11437503&postcount=124)). This is nothing more than him whining like a little baby about it. And seriously, if anybody at all but him gave two shits about this at all (and I am among the people who don’t), I’d strongly suspect that this pitting would turn into a _reverse_ pitting, rather than dropping off the page like the falling turd its initiater is.

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