andy,
We all come here to read other people's points of view and express our own as it may be. Why would your many posts, or anyone else's, be any less "self-indulgent?" Seems a distinction without distinction.
Though you also seem to be saying I'm purposefully being illogical (and for that strange reason being "indulgent.") If that's what you are saying, can you show me an example of where I've been illogical in this thread?
To spell out a point that seemed to be missed: My initial reply to your fun comment/car analogy was to indicate you begged the question, hence it was a nice, even if jokey, illustration of the type of replies I was describing earlier. And your reply wasn't the only one in this thread that illustrated my point perfectly ;-)