You cast Dispel Myths.

Alright, you know what? I'm sick and tired of some people spinning these myths about me and what I do. So I'm gonna fire off a laundry list of the nonsensical stuff I've had thrown at me and debunk the lot of it. It's like Mythbusters, but with a pissed off ravager chewing on your face while it happens.

• "lol y do u pve as marks dont u know bm is better" - Yes, I know ENTIRELY that BM is better. Anyone that asks me for my opinion is TOLD as much. I am the biggest MM apologist this side of the Dark Portal and I will still advise any novice hunter to spec Beast Mastery. I don't like the reality, and I certainly will not become another statistic of it, but it is the cold, harsh reality.
• "lol just give up mm is a pvp spec be happy with that" - No. I do not enjoy PVP at all, and the reasoning is two-fold - firstly, I'm not very good at it. Secondly, the high levels of schadenfreude involved sicken me. My joy should not come at the cost of another person's joy. More people need to remember that there is a human being behind each and every character you see.
• "other classes only have one raiding spec so why should hunters have more" - Hunters are, believe it or not, on the fringe edges of a hybrid class. Let us examine each hybrid class for a moment. Paladins are viable in raids as Holy (healer), Protection (tank), or Retribution (supplimental DPS/support through Judgements). Shaman are viable as Restoration (healer), Enhancement (support for casters via Stormstrike/totems), or Elemental (DPS). Druids are viable as Feral (tank OR DPS), Balance (DPS + huge raid buff through Improved Faerie Fire) or Restoration (healer). I also disagree that any DPS class should have "one PVE spec". If Assassination and Subtlety are not viable for raids, PROTEST LIKE I DO! Your apathy and quiet acceptance of the fallacy are WHY THE FALLACY EXISTS!
• "mm takes no more skill than bm" - I dare you to say that to any MH/BT raiding Hunter. Even at my level of play (Heroics), I know for a fact that my rotation requires a far keener eye and far more mental acuity than a BM Hunter's. I'm not insulting BM for this - it's quite a testament to the Hunter community that they've developed a macro so potent that you can scroll your mouse's scroll wheel and rack up over a thousand DPS. My point is that more work (a hand-woven 1.5:1) should elicit more DPS (than a macro'd and mouse wheel'd 3:2). A spec that enhances their companion should fall behind in personal DPS to one that does not, but match up in composite DPS when the Hunter's DPS, the pet's DPS, and the DPS provided by way of their buffs are compared. Seperate, but equal - and no, this is not Brown v. Board of Education. It can work.
• "lol warcraft is easy, quit whining" - I grew up raiding when Warcraft was not "easy". Before I retired, I killed every raid boss that you could kill in pre-TBC content aside from the Four Horsemen, Sapphiron, and Kel'Thuzad, and proudly owned a Rhok'delar - I didn't use it, as my Dwarven racial made my guns far more powerful, but I slew the demons and earned my reward. My experience as a raider is quite high in the grand scheme of things, but I haven't tested my mettle against this expansion's content. I seek to use that as a proving ground.
• "you shouldn't inhibit your raid for your own motives" - this is the only argument that I feel holds any water when it is levied against me, and even then, I think it is fallacious. An unskilled player inhibits a raid far more often than an "improperly specced" player. My belief for all things is "come as you are, prove to me what you can do, and I'll judge you from that". Judging a Hunter by his spec is as inane as judging anything at first glance. There is more to being an adept raiding Hunter than 41/20/0 and thumbing your mouse wheel.

I apologize if this sounds like I'm ranting - I am, actually. That said, I want people to understand the "why" behind Stabilized Effort Scope and the reason that I remain MM. I know that I could be better, but I choose resolutely not to because I want to prove it to myself and the world that it can be viable before the high-end T6+ gear that people claim is "required" to make it near-viable.

And if there is no voice for the spec, the spec will die in PVE, much as Assassination has died over to Combat. Those who do not speak up are the first ones exterminated, and I will not let my beloved spec die. I beat out Survival when it was king, and I'll beat out Beast Mastery, too. I'm too arrogant and prideful to not do so.