Quote Originally Posted by Monty92 View Post
For me, Clive, it's simply about intellectual integrity and consistency.

I'd compare it to people like Jorge who quite clearly want Brexit to end badly because it will validate their own political ideology. That's obviously pretty contemptible, but it's at least loyal to his driving motivation (to be proven right). The real crime is the lack of intellectual integrity he shows by denying that this is his true, guiding motive.

Now, you could say I am similarly contemptible for wanting the country of my birth to lose a football game because I don't like some of the players. But I'm at least being consistent to my true, guiding motive (to see players I hate lose). And the only negative consequence is that England lose a football game.

I'd have thought that would be forgivable, if not understandable to those less bothered by such trifling matters as intellectual consistency and integrity
Point of Information: Jorge's sort (You? Certainly B and Sir C and so on. Indeed, lefties generally) are not motivated by a will to validate their political ideology; stands to reason as they don't really have one.

No, they don't care about being, or even being proven, right. Their principle, perhaps only motive is simply perpetual disagreement with those they don't like. Being right doesn't matter to them so much as their present adversary being "wrong".