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It's less of a knee jerk reaction of insolence against some perceived authority to rebel against, and more that I found the demeanor and entitlement of the post to be so utterly repugnant that I was put off. "You said you'd use Linux and didn't how dare you". It's like a toddler throwing a tantrum over people whom may not exist.
As for your related question, the subtext is that you are accusing me of being an unthinking person who reacts only out of emotion, and I don't particularly care for that, nor do I have any reason to tell you my internal mental processes, so I decline answering it.
Sure... But your reaction was also childish and irrational.
A little bit of the pot calling the kettle black...
It's a little calculated, but probably wouldn't get picked up on by people.
You did come off as someone who reacts only on emotion, since that's all that was visible in your previous post.
Being put off by the delivery of information is not typically a good reason to dismiss it. If someone says to you "3 is a prime number you donkey" you're hopefully not going to reject that because they were rude. I mean, we all do that to some extent, but it's a pretty sloppy shortcut.
Since we're talking about how people come off, you come off as one of those people who like to think they are logical and rational but are very dismissive of emotions (of others) and come off as condescending, because you are. You're also probably pedantic.
So, to appeal to your rational side, just because a decision is based off of emotion doesn't inherently invalidate it. If someone said "3 isn't a prime number you donkey" and you got mad and argued that it was, you're still correct even if the way you got to that conclusion wasn't rational.
It's probably a variation of ad homonym but I'm not going to bother to look up the specifics.