>I've appreciated my time on HN specifically because I notice many replies to "inflamed" speech specifically eschew further inflammation and focus on the mindful discussion. Bravo.

I, too. It's almost like my IRL workplace, but with loads more techie clued-up people. And IRL, I very much enjoy working in a context in which there are very few alpha males, Insanity Wolves and Ayn Rand readers.

Now, personally, I do my best to be avoidant or calmly assertive when someone I meet annoys me, and I mentally file people who throw chest-beating tantrums under "giant baby" and avoid them on the assumption that instability implies unreliability and they wouldn't be pleasant to work with. Fundamental attribution error be damned, one blow-up is one too many for me to feel at ease around someone. So that tells you something about my personal definition of unacceptable behaviour, I suppose.

Malarkey.

Jobs would breathe fire when hes incensed or inflamed.

Furiousness is a skill that your kind cannot internalize.

It brings out the best when rightly meant and rightly utilized.

One has a right to be inflamed when his or her world view is called into question.

The mediocre just acquiesce, the impassioned offer a caustic rebuttal.

Not some happy medium rejoinder that pleases all.