Dr. House

I love watching Dr. House. I love him. He's a jerk in my opinion, but I still love him. Why? I'm not yet entirely sure. Some aspects I love about him are how he provocates people and gets a reaction. His dogma of "everybody lies", it's as sad as true. How he rationalizes things people usually completly forget would better be rationalized.
Examples?
Dr. Cameron: "You want me to tell a man whose wife is about to die that she may have cheated on him?"
Dr. House: "No, I want you to be polite and let her die."
Straight.
But maybe what I like most is, that he does what I don't dare to.

Morons II

After a discussion with a friend yesterday, I came to the conclusion, that my post wasn't clear enough. I try to clarify a bit.
I don't care about: people hear that they do stupid things, they feel stupid.
I do care about: people hear that they do stupid things, they understand they were told to be stupid.
Spot the difference?
What I'm saying is, people are outright incapable of making a difference between criticism on their actions and criticism on their person. By my observation it's worse with negative criticisms.

Morons

Quiz question: I tell a guy what he does is moronic, do I tell him he was a moron?
a) Yes. Doing moronic stuff implies being a moron.
b) No. Even non-morons can do moronic stuff.
c) I'm a moron, I can't decide.

a) is wrong. Sorry for you if you chose c).
Somebody who does something moronic, is told so and sticks to it against better knowledge IS a moron. Everybody who improves upon knowing that fact is not.

Arguments

Ever had an argument with somebody where you got into a phase proving him wrong but he would in no way acknowledge that he even might be wrong?
Or better yet, ever run into the opposite situation where you where clearly proven wrong and wouldn't acknowledge that?
I occassionally run into the former. And I'm not talking about those cases where 2 people simply have different opinions and both think the others opinion sucks.
I'm talking about situations where you can prove the other wrong. I observed that behavioural pattern fairly often. Seriously, whats the deal? Is it damaging peoples ego if they have to admit being wrong? I observed several patterns when it became obvious that one was wrong:
- Denial without further arguments: "No, you're wrong, I'm right"
- Ad hominem attacks: "If you weren't an idiot you'd see that I'm right"
- Silence
So for those lonesome readers that have somehow stranded here - what's your opinion? Why do people behave that way? What are your experiences?
That's all for today, only the questions. Maybe on another day I'll have some possible answers.

First post!

"So what's that other blog about? Why does that guy even bother to write a blog?" - Valid questions you might ask. To be honest, if you're reading this blog you've already beaten my expectations.
I have this blog as a vent for my personal thoughts. Maybe as a backlog. I'm not yet sure about what things I will write. Probably about People, Religion, Ethics, Politics and last but not least IT.
Most probably I won't write more than once in a month.

Anyway, have fun reading