Hrmph. This is what often happens on the internet: - Someone makes a cynical comment on some specific topic - Someone else makes a completely inappropriate ex

Hrmph. This is what often happens on the internet: - Someone makes a cynical comment on some specific topic - Someone else makes a completely inappropriate extrapolation and concludes—based on nothing—that the first poster is making an argument for being defeatist and negative for its own sake - The first poster has to then correct this inappropriate extrapolation—which was based on nothing—by stating that, yes, it is good to (say) have a positive attitude in your life - Onlookers act puzzled as the first poster is contradicting himself (apparently) by hostilely agreeing with the second poster that having a good mind-attitude in life is good! So yes I suppose I could be agreeing with the second poster...