Colour-Scientist said:
Some people just really enjoy a good long debate/fight online and in real life. I've never really stuck through an entire R&P thread but I imagine they're less inclined to descend into "fuck you and everything you love" insults than similar discussions in Off-Topic.
I wouldn't [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/528.354162-A-personal-plea-from-a-Chrstian-gamer#14063691] be [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/528.383105-Israel-Is-a-Sham] so [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/528.383482-Lying-and-Idiocy-in-R-P#15172887] sure [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/528.383107-Escapists-are-stereotypical-liberals?page=1] about [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/528.383000-Feminists-please-learn-what-sexism-is-and-how-it-applies] that [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/528.382559-Obama-If-Youve-got-a-business-you-didnt-build-that?page=1].
Okay, maybe those aren't directly applicable to exactly what you said (i.e., those are topics that typically probably wouldn't be discussed in Off-Topic and most of the posts are more eloquent than "fuck you and everything you love"), but I still think it's a fairly apt showing.
Most of those are fairly recent R&P threads, too; apart from the first one (which was linked in a different, more recent thread) all of those were on the first two pages.
Whoa, that's completely off-topic now. Sorry, Fappy. I'd like to reiterate my interest in meeting some of those people from R&P just so I can figure out how they get so much enjoyment out of debating over the internet.