I don't think off topic is really an issue with a topic that started because it was off topic on another topic, debating about whether that topic was on topic or not in the first place 
In discussions like this, you never really know what's going to be pertinent -- something seemingly irrelevant may in fact turn out to be the key to the whole thing.
I can't help wondering if people's opinions on things like this have a great deal to do with their "personality type" if such a thing exists, or simply the way their minds work. I know that I rarely think in "straight lines", relying instead on sort of intuitive leaps, which I know aren't actually intuition, I just gather information in a fairly haphazard or chaotic manner. I don't learn well through "steps", I'm rather more abstract. Then again, once I reach a conclusion I always work backwards through it in a logical fashion so that I can try and explain it to someone else.
On the Myers-Briggs thingo I'm an INTP. The summary of that is actually pretty accurate, though who knows if that's just me projecting -- I take all those things with an entire cellar of salt.
In discussions like this, you never really know what's going to be pertinent -- something seemingly irrelevant may in fact turn out to be the key to the whole thing.
I can't help wondering if people's opinions on things like this have a great deal to do with their "personality type" if such a thing exists, or simply the way their minds work. I know that I rarely think in "straight lines", relying instead on sort of intuitive leaps, which I know aren't actually intuition, I just gather information in a fairly haphazard or chaotic manner. I don't learn well through "steps", I'm rather more abstract. Then again, once I reach a conclusion I always work backwards through it in a logical fashion so that I can try and explain it to someone else.
On the Myers-Briggs thingo I'm an INTP. The summary of that is actually pretty accurate, though who knows if that's just me projecting -- I take all those things with an entire cellar of salt.
It could be worse