Amos delights in words the way Blackbeard delighted in slaughter... ;-D   You could call that a fetish.

But as far as facts, Sawzaw, this is what I find: Everyone has an aversion to facts that don't appear to benefit or support an argument they hold dear! On the other hand, they absolutely adore facts that do appear to benefit or support their argument.

There are usually a variety of facts available...millions of them, in fact...and what people normally do is they comb through those facts for the ones that seem to help their argument and they ignore or discount the rest.

This is true of you, me, Amos, and the rest of the 5 billion or so people presently residing on the planet. ;-D They all carefully select the facts they like and try hard to disregard the rest.