I respectfully disagree when my position is as valid as the contrary; ie. Australian Shepherds are the greatest dogs ever. This is not a matter for which I will fight; it's opinion, and you are free to your own.
However, as has been said by far smarter persons, you are not free to your own facts. Interpretation is open to the layman, of course, but when it runs perpendicular to experts in the field, you have to be prepared to accept the possibility that your position is based on a lack of understanding. When you are vehement and mendacious in your opposition, the respectful disagreement rapidly turns into character assassination and sniping as it's clear you are not one for reason.
I am, of course, only speaking for myself; I'd rather be honest about my disinclination to engage in calm, reasoned debate with frothing assholes for whom opinion and fact are interchangeable. I've no problem playing at that level; to be sure, it's vastly more entertaining, if not necessarily elucidating.
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