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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7822215" data-attributes="member: 177">I cannot speak to particular people. But, there's some things known about human behavior.When we start talking about making changes in social arrangements or behavior (like, say, using an X-card when we didn't do so before), we run into a basic implication: Doing something like this is better than what we used to do.Which means, quite simply, that we were doing something that wasn't very good before.  Perhaps, we were actually doing something bad.  So, now folks have a choice - push back and make it completely, utterly clear that there's nothing wrong with what we were doing, or face the possibility that they may bear some responsibility for things that weren't good.  And... lots of folks take the route of getting angry and pushing back, rather than the route of introspection, acceptance of responsibility, and adjustment of behavior.  This is primarily an emotional reaction, not a rational one - so the response is not terribly well-vetted for logical content - this leads to the repetition you see.</blockquote>