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The craziest thing you’ve seen is people behaving the same as a photographer who came before then? You sound mad about other people being excited that they finally saved enough and took an opportunity to enjoy themselves. People go to places to see things because that’s what tourism is. Do you not try to do things yourself because others have done it before you? Did you know that tour groups are a business formed to do exactly what you think is crazy?

There is a remarkable detachment between you and the people who are trying to have fun.

Let me recap your reply:

Do you not try

Did you know

There is a remarkable detachment between you and the people who are trying to have fun

and

You sound mad about other people

Pardon me, but who exactly sounds mad, here?

It's possible I'm over-interpreting the way you answered and maybe, like me, English is not you native language and you may not master it enough to express all the nuances of your deep and rich opinions and thoughts. It is such a pain, it happens to me all the time too.

So, to make it clear, I answered a question without worrying much about pleasing anyone, yourself included hope you won't mind me saying so. And I answered what I thought was the craziest thing I see tourists do.

What I never tried to answer is this question you pulled out of the fleshy sitting part of your anatomy:

The craziest thing you’ve seen is people behaving the same as a photographer who came before then?

To put it politely, it's quite unfair to change the question and then criticize my supposed answer to it. What was it you were saying? Oh, yeah: there is a remarkable detachment between you and the actual facts.

So, once again, I was only talking about tourists doing tourtisty things, and nothing else. I was not talking about people in general or crazy things in general. But since you asked, let me tell you you probably don't want to know the craziest shit I've seen people do. And, no, they were not mere tourists behaving like mere tourists. Unless the tourist you know have a tendency to end up in jail, too?

That said, I'm grateful for the time you spend trying to help me realize the absolute dick I was by daring sharing my unflattering opinions on tourists behaving like tourists. Allow me to oblige in return. I insist.

1. To recap, all I did is express my personal unflattering opinion on a question about tourists, right?
2. To which you answered by expressing your own and rather unflattering opinion on the kind of person I must be, right?

But then, if 1. makes a dick out of me, what does 2. make out of you? Right.

So, to summarize, it seems we both have diverging personal and unflattering opinions. That's great! I am always so happy to meet people willing to discuss without anger or being dismissive to one another, even more so when those two persons have slightly diverging opinions on very delicate topics.

Once again, from one dick to another, thank you very much for what I consider a very enriching discussion.