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Why do you think it's "blindingly clear"? If you're going to use such strong language, it should be easy to present your argument in a more convincing way. Others disagree with you - I think calling them wrong without so much as a single line to suggest why is very much "being a baby". You think others should just agree with you because it's what YOU think - my five year old niece seems to think this way as well.

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The person I'm responding to acknowledges that "is a" & "acts like a" are equivalent in the context of the article.

If somebody is getting hung up on something as nit-picky as that, they're not going to see the forest for the trees in an article like this.

Ironically, playing nit-picky semantics games like this is the kind of avoidant attitude that lead people astray from personal growth.

I think you're both right:

* someone reacting strongly to this slight difference is "acting like a baby", at least colloquially, but I'm not sure if it meets the author's definition of "active".

* the author using the term "acting like a baby" might get through to people who are sensitive to the difference

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