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OP might be a classic internet troll. Those like to stir up arguments and some small drama. They're not necessarily sarcastic or surprised or anything. That's just a means to get people agitated and react a certain way.
NGL this is true to an extent, but it's not to just get a reaction but to get people to think.
Fundamentally all content on the internet lives and dies by attention, and the presentation of an attention-grabbing hot take even when the underlying point is an extremely common and sensible position is just a way to get people to think.
It's the same way YouTube video titles work too, often an absurd question that has an obvious answer is a pretext to fleshing out the details and discussing said obvious answer.
Yeah, judging by your comments, you're not a classic troll. I couldn't judge from your original post, because you could either genuinely not know about the global modlog and the text area at the top to put your username in... Or post this for another reason. And I mean I was right and you got quite some reaction and attention specifically to your person. And that'd be something a troll would feed from.
Idk. I think things like posting something out of ulterior motives, like not meaning literally what you write, but instead writing something to make people (re)think something... Or playing advocatus diaboli... Or other things like that are closely related to trolling. It's not the same. But everything is a spectrum anyways.
And in that regard idk why I got downvoted. I didn't say you are a troll. I said think about OP, they could have a hidden motive like if they were a troll...