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The inability for people to separate how they define themselves from a thing they really like is really interesting to me. I see this a lot in video game, gun, and AI circles, lately. That when the thing they have built their personality around is critiqued, they get irrationally upset about it.

At the core is having never built and curated a taste. Stuck at the sensibilities of a child. It's why AI appeals to so many of them, because it's more of a toy (and feels guided by an adult in the background) than an actual tool as they pretend. If someone doesn't like your toy, they're stupid.

Yeah, I think that's it - I think it's why a lot of the appeals to logic fail on these types of person. They aren't coming at it from a logical place to start with.