nonsensical intellectual masturbation

Law school is perhaps a queer place. We call each other pseudos, we slime, we bitch about, like women (even men {I am an MCP}). And we take part in discussions which we think are illuminating, which make us different from other 'dumb' people, who do not participate in the same. Such discussions may take place, even if wehave exams the next day; we cannot leave opportunities like these. We HAVE to prove ourselves superior to other universities, other people of our age, but most importantly, to prove ourselves as better than the person we are 'debating' against. We have to argue till he succumbs to our logic, and the problem here is, the other party thinks that too. Good that SDGM prohibits causing bodily injury, otherwise methinks most of these discussions would have ended in fights.
I am just reminded of Indian Coffee House, Calcutta. You say adda is a bong phenomenon?
We can go to any extent to make ourselves win, from quoting non-existent 'scientific proofs' and Supreme Court judgements (and all parties have such authorities to cite from, and debates may just turn away from the main topic, and move on to which authority is better), to being loud enough to suppress the other. We come up with weird notions, perhaps ones we wouldn't have believed in at some other point in time, but right now, we need to rebut the other, so any point which does that, is good.
Whats more, we believe that such discussion is beneficial, since we are lawyers, we need to talk in hypersensitive ways; we aint egotists, we actually believe that all this is constructive. We forget to sleep, and forget that other people need to sleep. Debate zindabaad.
"All we are saying, is give peace a chance" - John Winston Ono Lennon