Presenting arguments isn’t bad if it’s about something important, but I think by “Hey, I’ve argued about shit all my life!” the GP takes issue more with the “shit” than the arguing.
> arguing about slight variations of the same mundanities: XML, XSD, IDL, ASN.1, Avro, JSON... Emacs vs. Vim, Weakly vs. Strongly typed, and so on...
There could be a lot of valid and important arguments around these things. Except maybe vim and emacs, who gives a shit about that.