I've been in social circles where one can just say "that is just stupid" without that being a big deal, as well as others where people tend to write essays like

I've been in social circles where one can just say "that is just stupid" without that being a big deal, as well as others where people tend to write essays like yours to get a simple argument across. I prefer the former by a lot, but of course you're free to spend your time in the latter.