If you had everyone bothering you, stalking you, harassing you, lying about you, wouldn't you want try to prove them wrong in a highly dramatic manner that makes them question the very foundation of their sick, pedantic reasoning?
There is no such thing as
"sick, pedantic reasoning". [Are you going to call Pifagora theorem sick and pedantic too?]
There are sound arguments and unsound arguments. There are valid arguments and invalid arguments.
There are also people who are uneducated and more so unable or unwilling to learn and those who, when faced with undeniable argument crushing their silly hypothesis, are hiding in some disturbing psycho denial state and exhibiting symptoms of emotional withdrawal from the reality.