Please not the "computer people are too logical to deal with normal human beings" argument! That leads inevitably to the autism supremacists' stance that having normal social abilities should be a disqualification from working with computers because only the purely logical can do it right, which is basically the old argument that women are "too emotional" for math and science reskinned. As a computer person whose particular professional interest requires undestanding how human beings work in order to get anywhere, I assure you that being good at computers does not necessarily make you too logical for everyday discourse.

There's a great parallel to the thread you're talking about, though-- you've expressed a thought you came up with yourself that seemes reasonable to you, and suddenly you discover that it's been expressed before and in worse terms, and someone who's seen that argument over and over is reacting to more than just the piece you have.

(Yes, BTW, there really are autism supremacists. Just to be clear, I'm not accusing you of being one of them, nor do I expect to ever have grounds to.)