https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toxicity "an extremely harsh,
malicious, or harmful quality"
You describe your own language as harsh. It also is harmful and malicious.
It is harmful to make use insipid or irrelevant comments as a distraction.
You make many statements that are accurate or subjectively reasonable but do
not form a complete argument. Because of this, others do not accept your
conclusion. You deflect by accusing them of misunderstanding the individual
statements, when the problem is that the statements do not form a logical
progression toward proving your claim. You ignore everything in their
response about which you can’t make additional tangentially related
statements to avoid moving toward a conclusion. This is why these
conversations go in circles.
It is malicious to use the pretense of making an argument to berate others.
Your use of a debate tactic that avoids progress toward a conclusion
indicates that you are uninterested in persuading anyone to agree with you.
Instead, it seems that each statement you make is an attempt to justify the
subsequent insult by first demonstrating that you are articulate and
presenting an irrelevant but superficially reasonable statement. Your
defensiveness over virtually everything said to you, plus the fact that you
are still so hung up on the password generation thread that you brought it up
weeks later in an unrelated discussion, makes it painfully obvious that you
are driven by insecurity rather than logic.
You can disagree with my assessment, but I used the word “toxicity”
correctly. I regret participating in this and will be checking out now.
However, I want to acknowledge one thing you are absolutely right about,
which is that distributing your project as free software is a meaningful
contribution. I do respect you for that.
