Vive la Difference

Words are thrown across the table like a Ping pong ball in a match, trying to thwart the opponent and find some way to prevent a return. Unlike the table tennis match there are no rules and no umpire to guide the verbal joust and no one to decide the winner.
Of course it's the concept of a winner that is the problem since there is often no winner because each person challenging the other is working from a different agenda. As the words begin to flow there should be a hold to ask what are you wishing to attain and why.

A different agenda makes all the difference, it substantially effects the way each person plunges deeper into ever more angry retort and innuendo and often issues are dragged up that are not relevant but are used to undermine the person on the other side.
Certain television shows develop this animosity for the public to gawk at, two people tearing themselves to pieces in a frustration of trying to obtain a hearing and hopefully some sort of understanding, egged on by the shows host ridiculing one or other of the participants. These shows have high ratings revealing the base instincts people have when faced with a gladiatorial conflict. Baying for blood describes the process. One sees it in the fight game where someone is having their head knocked off their shoulders and the crowd yell for more. In the Coliseum in Romans times they were always setting their citizens against each other or, against wild animals in mortal combat with barely a chance of survival. The crowd loved it, the more gore the better.
I find it abhorrent but millions differ from me. Should I find this strange, should I become frustrated by my apparent lack of connectivity with my fellow man or should I rejoice that mankind is diverse and Vive la difference.