There's no need to conflate "unfruitful" and "negative." Plenty of people have fun arguing without persuading one another of anything, more or less the definiti

There's no need to conflate "unfruitful" and "negative." Plenty of people have fun arguing without persuading one another of anything, more or less the definition of an "unfruitful" conversation. It's negative when someone's not having fun. Or more to the point, when someone feels the need to post on the internet about how defective the "friend" they were arguing with is.