So an ad-hominem attack is the best you can do? That's also a type of logical fallacy where you attack the person with a personal slur when you can't make a logical argument. Ironically, this is from one of the guys on this forum who believes Canon can never make mistakes, and should never be criticized lol! And that's not an ad-hominem argument, but an observation of your post history
I'm not emotionally reacting like you, nice projection there. I'm just calmly and logically deconstructing shi**y arguments and attitudes that are generally unhelpful towards open, informative discussion..
Since you brought up therapy, maybe we should discuss the psychology of fanboyism? Self-reflect and see if you recognize your behavior in here, self-awareness is really helpful in life.
Fanboyism of this kind is often rooted in a mix of psychological needs: the desire for identity, certainty, and social belonging. When someone ties their ego to a product or brand, the brand becomes an extension of the self, so criticism feels threatening not because of the product itself but because it challenges the person’s sense of competence and judgment. This can lead to rigid, simplified worldviews where “my brand is good and all others are bad,” because nuance would introduce uncomfortable ambiguity.
In online forums, this mindset often expresses itself as seeking validation rather than truth - people repeatedly defend their purchases not out of confidence but because their underlying doubts feel too risky to confront openly. As a result, forums become echo chambers where dissent is treated as hostility, because acknowledging flaws would mean reassessing one’s own choices and the identity built around them. This behavior is ultimately self-limiting, because it substitutes emotional reassurance for genuine learning or honest engagement.
Additionally, since you wanted to raise the matter of childishness, this defensive, identity-fused kind of fanboy mindset is generally understood psychologically as a sign of emotional immaturity, not in the sense of age but in the sense of underdeveloped self-regulation and self-concept. When someone cannot tolerate critical information without feeling personally attacked, it suggests that their sense of self is fragile enough that external opinions must be tightly controlled to maintain emotional comfort. Mature psychological functioning allows a person to separate their identity from their possessions, to handle disagreement without defensiveness, and to adjust beliefs when presented with better information. In contrast, this kind of fanboyism reflects a need for certainty, validation, and ego protection that overrides curiosity and rational evaluation.
Happy to discuss it further, but maybe forum members would instead like to discuss this new lens, its positives and negatives, without having self-appointed gatekeepers come down on them and try to shut them down when they mention the negatives because their fragile egos can't handle facts that challenge their illusory worldviews built to psychologically comfort them. You mentioned consulting a specialist to deal with emotional issues. Perhaps I might be such a specialist that can help people overcome their irrational fanboy mindset and liberate them from such a terrible malady lol!
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