There are five kinds of people and no. 4 and no. 5 the only two who viciously fight. See if you agree.
No. 1: The unhappy who are unfortunate.
No. 2: The fortunate who are happy.
No. 3: Unhappy because the more fortunate are happy.
No. 4: Unhappy because the more fortunate are happy and their fortune is unfair.
No. 5. Those who believe everyone is unhappy (and therefore are happy.)
The fifth group is the only one which involves a paradox: how can you be “happy” if “everyone is unhappy?” The fifth group tends to believe in God, is religious, and is a philosopher or an artist.
The fourth group and the fifth group are the only ones who intellectually argue.
No. 4 has no argument with the first 3 groups. What can 4 possibly argue with them about? 4 may wish to convert them to their point of view, but if they hold to their positions, what interest can 1, 2, and 3 (practical and simple to the core) have in 4 (“unfair” or “not” has nothing to do with how they feel about their lot in life).
Similarly, 5 can have no real quarrel with 1, 2, and 3, since their position is so radically different, and is absent of any paradoxical thinking—the whole position of 5 is based on a paradox: “I am happy because no one is happy.”
It will be left to 4 to say to 5, “You are a fool because you are unhappy and proclaim you are not. But the fortunate of course are happier than you.”
And 4 will be impelled to attack 5 in just this manner because only 5 makes 4 irrelevant—if everyone is unhappy, the position of 4 collapses.
Once 4 is forced to pick a quarrel with 5, it is quite discernible that the position of 5 becomes quite embarrassing in the face of 4’s common sense mockery of 5: You say you are “happy” when obviously to all the other groups you either are not happy, or the reason for your “happiness” makes no sense.
One can see immediately how 4 and 5 are destined for a bitter quarrel to vindicate their positions.
This is the classic opposition between the Marxist (4) and the Christian (5).
This is the true source of all bitter argumentation.
There is no argument all all, otherwise. There is only bad or good fortune.