I tried to reason with the High Elf people in their thread yesterday after I found that they are having a logical fallacy where they are (either by being willfully ignorant or ignoring reality) confusing the “High Elf” race with a faction of High Elves.
I made them this graphic to help:
~https://i.imgur.com/O78xHEx.jpg
This way they had an actual visual aid to help them understand that, for example a Troll (High Elf) is not the same as a type of Troll (High Elf). So we have Jungle Trolls (Blood Elves) and compare them to say Forest Trolls (Void Elf). I tried even using other Alliance races NE and Dwarves, so they could see that a Dwarf (High Elf) is the same race regardless of what faction or adaptation/mutation they acquire. So you might have Dark Irons (Blood Elves) or Wildhammer (Void Elves), but in both cases the race is the same- Dwarf (High Elf).
Then a very odd fellow said this:
"https://wow.gamepedia.com/File:Blood_elf_next_to_a_high_elf2.jpg
Let’s play a simple logical game.
How about you try and tell us which one of these elves is the High Elf and which one is the Blood Elf.
You seem to be struggling here."
And, I pointed out that he failed his own logic game because he is asking an illogical question. He was asking (repeatedly) a flawed question. The logical answer is that they are BOTH High Elves. However, he was attempting to ask a loaded question assuming I was a normal person that would fall for it, but I am autistic, so I clearly saw his trick. Thus, I tried to help him understand his flaw.
I said that it might help to think of High Elves as human beings in the real world and that he is showing me a picture of two women, one with green eyes and one with blue eyes, and asking me the question of, “Which one of these two women is human and which one has green eyes?” as if green-eyed women are inhuman or insuating that only blue-eyed women are human. However, I found that he, like the others, was unable to understand that a race is not the same as a faction.
I also suggested that Blizzard simply give the Blood Elves a blue eyes option since they are High Elves anyway and by this point may have well cleansed the fel from themselves. However, they were quite angry over my suggestion. It appeared that they strictly want a “Tolkienistic” elf playable strictly by the Alliance. It was quite funny to see the irrational and emotional fervor. lol