Your original question was to ask "what is wrong with me". This is how a member of a herd singles out someone with a non-herd pov.
Oddly enough, it's also what an individual says when they think a comment is profoundly fatuous. Doesn't actually matter if I said it as the product of herd mentality or as an individual; what matters is that you're not in a position to comment on my motives.
I guess that's the heart of the issue. What you have in front of you is behaviour which could be the result of more than one motive or cause. Mysteriously you arrive at a conclusion on motive, yet there's no clear path as to how or why you've reached a conclusion.
It's the vacuity of it that gets to me. Normally I'd let it alone, but the post was also disparaging. One or the other is fine, but both in combination seems to be a bit much.
Applying peer pressure as it were.
I'm not pressuring you into doing anything. I thought your post was quite poor. I offered a reason as to why.
One can be a part of a forum without necessarily be part of the groups(s) that make up the forum community.
Never said anything to the contrary.
No.
...have more to do with young people trying to learn themselves and nothing to do with being intp. While it is that they often couch the self examination with qualifiers like "do all intp dislike toads", the fact is the poster dislikes toads and is looking for acceptance/affirmation that he is either within the intp stereotype or his weirdness is ok with the herd.
To your point that the hyperbolic "90%" was a fair characterization (elsewhere in the thread), no. It's an impression of yours, but what follows is not "fact"; it's speculation on motive. It's very.... fuzzy. Some examples of threads with "Do other INTP [x behaviour]" will fit your speculation while others will not, but my suspicion is that you've lumped them all together.
The herd, if accepting, will discuss the topic as reasonable or valid.
You've embedded your conclusion in your premise. That is also how individuals would behave in the same scenario. If you reduce it to something binary -- accept or do not accept -- then by default, no group larger than two can have all unique opinions. Agreement occurs regardless of the presence of herd mentality. There are many variables behind why majority or minority dynamics may arise, and herd mindset is but one possible variable.
While that's not the extent of my problems with the example of herd mentality you've provided, I'll stop there for the moment.
So rather than simply dismissing you and a young and ignorant Fe, I will give you and alternative thought and assume your Ti exists
Why would you be compelled to dismiss me on the basis of age or type at all? More importantly, why would I need to be treated as Ti? Does the validity of your position vary based on my type? Or, despite how you dislike herds, would a true Scotsman... er, INTP like you simply not want to explain to other types?
