No, I can totally understand why she wants her own forum. It's the same reason mobs of people run a blog.
It's not that she wants a forum to discuss controversial topics. She wants a forum to educate everyone
else about
her views on controversial topics. I'm sure everyone here has had ideas that they think are pretty clever. Sidhe just wants a chance to share her ideas in an environment where she leads the discussion, which gives her the freedom to enlighten everyone with amazingly insightful arguments.
Now, I'm 100% certain that she also believes herself to be open-minded and willing to accept feedback, which in turn she'll allow to shape her belief structure. And while that may even be true, when someone is an elitist... even an open-minded elitist... they believe the following:
- They either know more than you do, or failing that, the things
they know are more "right".
- While they fully accept feedback, they are aware that since they're "right" 95% of the time, the chance that you'll be able to educate them is so far outweighed by the fact that they'll be educating
you, that it renders it an almost inconsequential consideration.
Now, I freely admit I don't know beans about Sidhe, I don't think I've really read her posts in any thread other than this one. The only reason I believe this to be true is b/c if she wasn't an elitist, then she'd be completely comfortable posting her thoughts/ideas in the already existing (and already visited) forums. What someone enters in response to a controversial idea in the philosophy forum would be the exact same response they'd enter in her forum.
But still, with my (extremely) limited exposure I could be totally wrong about her. In which case I apologize if you take offense, Lady Sidhe, no offense is intended. Socrates is probably the biggest elitist in history, yet people still quote him a few years after his death.
Anyhow. I believe Sidhe to be an elitist. There's nothing really *wrong* with that. I know... because I was one.
*votes no*