Talk:Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 09/@comment-1460085-20140129172957/@comment-11571396-20140201160253

Style over substance fallacy. Me responding harshly was a result of your comments angering me. I don't know if you re-read yourself, but your comments do sound damn condescending. To not take the time to refute people's points by chalking it up to blind fanboyism, especially after I wrote a huge paragraph where I clearly, is quite disrespectful. It's in this sense I talked about the Internet, not as a mean for you to insult everyone like a troll, but so it's so easy to ignore the actual point raised. If I offended you, it was pretty much as a result of you offending me, whether it was willingly or not.

That said...sigh, I can clearly understand your harsh responses resulting from people calling you hater, basher, troll, and such terms. For 1 rational comment arguing in a civilized manner, you got at least 5 ranging between 'don't like don't read' and 'haters gonna hate'. I can guess it riled you up to get cornered like this on your own by the majority.

Nobody argued that Touma doesn't have Plot Armor, all protags have it to a degree (one can argue that Anime protags even more), but the way you talked about it, you made it as if he were a Gary Stue. Considering that comparing Touma to a Gary Stue has caused numerous flame wars in the past, some people don't take too kindly someone insulting Touma. People have become less patient, I guess.

I apologize for sounding so...abrasive, I concede that. However, that doesn't mean Touma is my favourite character EVAR, far from it. Look, I know a guy who stopped reading New Testament altogether. When I asked why, he explained to me his reasons calmly and made some good points. I disagree with his decision, but I respected it.

The difference between you and that guy is that you admitted you hated Touma since before reading NT9, as such people were less inclined to listen to your plea.

Anyway, I do apologize if my comments were too agressive. It's best if we stop this here.

(However, as a side note, I don't apologize for LevelSeven, this is not the first time he acts like that, and despite being criticized for his comportment both on here and on other forums, he continues to hate Touma to a passion and tell us every few days. Contrary to you, he has no excuse)