# Why do people 'fight the hypothetical'? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 6, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-fight-the-hypothetical/668210 "2013-09-06T22:20:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-fight-the-hypothetical/668210/31 "2013-09-07T18:55:35Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > Are you accusing me of thread-shitting or doing something that wasn’t appropriate for that thread? No-I am saying that you couldn’t handle the hypothetical as written. > [@If you had to choose...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-choose/324498/1): > > When it was clear you didn’t want to delve into the possibility that I offered up, I didn’t return. Because I didn’t want to be accused of hijacking. Was bailing out bad form too? It seems like you just wanted people to say “yeah, universal telepathy would be horrible, dude!” and you designed a hypothetical that would ensure this response. But that makes for a pretty boring discussion, IMHO. What you read into it just wasn’t there, and the conversation is going just fine. In fact, I have disagreed with a couple of responses that promised “doom and gloom” because they didn’t follow the OP. > [@monstro](#): > > I fail to see why my two posts in your thread would even merit a raise of an eyebrow, let alone a whiny mention in another thread. It got mentioned because it was a good example of what the topic of this thread is about. Your name didn’t get mentioned because it wasn’t a major thing. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-people-fight-the-hypothetical/668210)._