Why you don’t want to catch flies, with or without honey
This is the end-argument of people who like to appease, the why-can’t-we -all-get-along folks. You catch more flies with honey, meaning that you get more people to agree with you if you don’t piss them off. The big question is, do you want these people agreeing with you? Let’s say that you could get Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage over to your side if you were to be nice to him (or, if you are Republican/Conservative I guess the equivalent would be Jon Stewart), would it be worth it? If you could change the minds of the people you hate at work, the ones with the lame ideas who get by by being pretty or kissing ass, would you want to?
The line is between the people who have a genuine argument full of merit, and the people who just want to win a fight, who are looking to do this by breaking your will to argue with them. If I am right and know I am right, and know that my argument is unassailable and should be obvious to any adult, then I don’t particularly care if you join up with me.
Your continual dissent just marks me out as being smarter than you are, and when other people do I agree with me, we can all point and laugh at you and feel better about ourselves.
Flies are flies, people. You don’t want them in your house.
