The unending story of cdrtools

I was going off in a "in that case, isn't he rejecting the very value system by which you're judging him?" direction, but it suddenly occurred to me that I don't actually agree with you here. Not that I think he wants to work with other people, necessarily, but he certainly wants to be *acclaimed* by other people. Otherwise he wouldn't have released cdrtools in the first place, and he wouldn't work so desperately hard at self-justification. Being right is vitally important to him, it appears - unfortunately, so much so that he apparently can't admit to being wrong... or maybe it's more that he can, but his persuasion threshold is just a loooong way above most people's? After all, most of us will only admit that we're wrong once we've persuaded ourselves of it - even if someone else has sat down and walked us through our mistake, we won't admit to being wrong until we see the mistake ourselves. That's a good thing. It becomes somewhat less good when we can out-argue the person trying to show us our mistake, at least to the point where persuading ourselves that we don't have to listen to that person is easier than persuading ourselves that we've actually screwed up. Indeed, it's probably harder for an amazingly bright person to avoid that particular beartrap.

Er, am I making sense...?