"It is perhaps time to recognise that all these big disputes are caused by just the same ordinary people having the same sort of squabbles as is witnessed here."

Yeah. That's exactly what I was saying, Roger. I'm saying that people usually continue an argument simply because they've already got a lot of emotional investment IN the argument, and they want to "win" it, and by winning it to make someone else lose. And they, of course, want to get in the last devastating word in such a telling and brilliant way that it reduces their opponent to stunned impotence... ;-)

Just like in a TV show. The decisive wrap-up. Like when Steve McGarret says, "Book 'em, Dan-O." The music rolls dramatically, and the episode ends! Once again "good" has triumphed over "evil". ;-)

Alas, real life is just not that neatly arranged most of the time.