in reply to What is "aggressive" argument?
Since I was the one (amongst others? Dunno, you seem to imply it) to label your argument aggressive, I guess I should respond. I'll try to be as brief as I can. None of the following is meant to further castigate or accuse, just as clarification.
For definition of "aggressive" I'd go with the Wiktionary entry on aggression (which also pretty much corresponds to your second definition):
1. The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
2. The practice or habit of launching attacks.
3. Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
In recent weeks, I've repeatedly seen you jump on nodes that concern threading and forking in an aggressive (per the above definition) way. You attribute malicious intent to the writers of such nodes where, to my eye(tm), there is none. You also read meanings into these nodes that I cannot detect, then proceed to tear apart these meanings. You attack authors of such nodes personally, when you could just as well argue against the content of their nodes. All of that is aggression. If you'd like examples, is ||= threadsafe? contains several of each of these.
As for the comparison to Re^16: Musing on Monastery Content, what does that have to do with anything? Most people who've been in the monastery for a while have written an aggressive reply at some time or other. I certainly have. Everybody gives in to the dark side occasionally, that's human nature, and if it's reasonably funny and to the point you might even be upvoted for it. It just becomes annoying to see constant aggression whenever a certain subject comes up.
All dogma is stupid.