I think it's worth not saying "arrogant" when you mean "asshole". The reason is that there are people who will politely imply that anything but functional progr

I think it's worth not saying "arrogant" when you mean "asshole". The reason is that there are people who will politely imply that anything but functional programming is worse, and they're different from the people who will do that while acting like you're scum or stupid for not realizing it. There's a fine line as to whether any statement is arrogant and a lot of it actually comes down to presentation. To what extent do you act like your views are obvious, or abuse the word "objective"? Is the person who maintains that FP is better arrogant or not? I think that comes down to a mixture of framing (let's be clear about which things are "objective" and which are opinion), and intellectual humility. In any case, I think we should separate that from the fact that there are at least a couple of true assholes out there.