Your loosing the battle for the english language

Yes that title is on purpose, I wont apologize because some "grammer nazis" and there stupid rules about righting and stuff.

 The internet is rife with fugitives from the law of language. Sentences like my masterpiece above shoot forth from the return keys of "wiki experts" and other "netizens" who claim superior knowledge over others and remain clueless on spelling and syntax. Well meaning crusaders crucify over misuse of "their, there and they're" or "your and you're" but those are understandable transgressions. Homonyms by nature are confusing, but they give English a fun and ironic feel. In contrast, my most hated faux-pas is loose/lose. How many otherwise intelligent, well thought out tirades and essays have lost all credibility with one word?

For example if I wrote: "Trying to reason with people who do not accept logical arguments, but instead rely on "common sense" is a loosing battle"

At first I appear to be making a reasonable argument (for once) about dealing with a majority that does not care or know about logic. Then that "loosing" pops in at the end and says: "Hey! just so you know, this guy is a fucking idiot!" It might seem a little harsh, especially to those who have committed this sin before, but when I see a misplaced "loose" that is the first thing I think.

The issue with loose/lose is that unlike "their/there/they're" they don't sound the same. So you can hear "their" in your head and mistakenly put "there" instead, but "lose" sounds like "bruise" or "muse", whereas "loose" sounds like "spruce" or "juice".
"Tim, what about people who speak English as a second language?"

I will grant a non-English speaker a full pardon any day for any of these crimes, English is a silly language, and very hard to learn. Unfortunately, I have met several non native English speakers who use these words improperly and countless "native" speakers who don't. Here is an example:

 There was a man, lets call him "Jim," Jim liked to think he was an intellectual. He would argue with everyone about pretty much everything, and it was cute because he was almost always wrong. Whenever these arguments took place online, he would write "lose" as "loose." This may just be a symptom of why Jim was always wrong, but if he had used "lose" correctly more people wouldn't know that he was in fact an idiot (at least not right away.)His friends tried to correct him, and every time he thought they were trying to trick him and make him look stupid by convincing him to spell the word "loose" wrong. There are many Jim's in the world. It mystifies me why they still use "loose" instead of "lose" when they can google "loose vs lose" and know the truth.

From the thousands of stories like this, a disturbing trend arises. Any time someone has their grammar or spelling corrected on the internet (or elsewhere) they cry "grammar Nazi!" and try to discredit the correcter as an uptight "school-marm." People should be glad that people still care enough to correct their English, it means they still have hope for that person. Be worried when no one corrects your bad grammar anymore, because your friends have stopped caring about you, and are all laughing at you instead.