I'm sorry if you feel that way. After going through a horrible phase of people just coming in week after week to lambaste, nitpick, and just overall troll to hate on a series that I love make me adopt this view.
I tried to argue about the good points of a series and had to go on a freaking trench war with no middle ground to the worst way humanity could express what they think is "bad" or "good" that I just developed this idea that it's no use using heuristics developed by flawed humans.
Seriously, trying to have a rational conversation with people who have developed an idea of whether a series is truly "good" or "bad" is an exercise in futility and circular arguments. Why bother talking about something when you guys can't bridge your opinions and come to a respectful middle ground?
So yeah, it's the internet where the basest instincts of people come out to bite you and tear what you believe is really good and spit it in your face.
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I know how it is. This sort of thing used to have an adverse effect on me. Then I went on GBAtemp for a year (where that adverse effect was at its worst). Prepped me real good for that sort of thing, so much so that I'm less bothered by the factual types (though I still stay away from comments on Youtube and IGN and the like).
I mean, our world is subjective, there is no objective moral right or wrong or an objective good or bad, it all comes down to...well...the subject. The thing is, there are so many closed-minded people that arguments do, as you said, become circular and rarely end on a good note. Conflicting opinions hardly ever come to a consensus, which is...unsatisfactory to me. It seems as if arguments based on opinion, more often then not, are a struggle to change the other person's opinion, if not to defend one's own. It may not start out that way, but they pretty much always become that way, whether it's intentional or not.
The problem is, people aren't quick to give up on their opinions, and they'll be damned before they let someone have their own. They want to be right, so they'll never concede to any sort of middle ground, no matter how convincing the argument. To them, their opinion is fact...and technically speaking, it is (since the subject's opinion would be objective to themselves), but they wouldn't dare accept someone else's opinion even be viable.
...So, in short, people are close minded and the internet is even more aggressive about that close-mindedness. I definitely agree with you.
@Twilight-kun - Christianity refutes that last one. Jesus argues cheeks.
