What people like and why says a lot about them as a person and an attack on what they like could often be an attack on them as well. So I think it's reasonable that this would happen.

Mm, well, yeah I agree with the other reply. People have values and stuff and feel a connection to things. I guess it depends on what kind of thing you're criticizing and how you're doing it.

Drivers often identify with their cars.
>He cut me off!

>>2634
Who are you quoting?

>>2635
drivers

>>2635
Me. I drive.

I'm definitely guilty of this.

I think, when you take a thing very seriously, you tend to forget that the same is not necessarily true for others. If I love X and you say you think X sucks shit, my knee-jerk reaction is to think that you hate it as much as I love it, even though that's probably not the case.