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It leads to misunderstandings, it's passive-aggressive, annoying, petty, condescending, and whiny. It also adds zero value to communication, and many languages fail to include it entirely; you will never find a sarcastic phrase in Arabic or Japanese, for instance. If you have something to say, say it clearly and concisely.
I sincerely and unashamedly hate sarcasm and I wish for it to grow extinct as a form of expression.
If you want to use snark, however, you can do so easily without resorting to saying the exact opposite of what you mean. Thorstein Veblen was very good at unsarcastic snark, and he would copiously insult the elites of his time without them even noticing.
It can be a combination of some of those things. It isn't always all of them.
It communicates a lot, which certainly adds value to some of the people doing said communicating.
Technically this is probably true. But only because I'm not likely to look.
Not replying to Ritalin because he argues misleadingly and with sockpuppets about literary matters, but I've read a great deal of Japanese literature and it never occurred to me that there was no sarcasm in it, and quite the opposite (especially in satirical or humorous works, as one would expect, like I Am a Cat). Heck, they do sarcasm just with the honorifics - switching from a normal -kun or -san to -sama, or worse, -dono/-tono. (If one doesn't like literature, one won't have to go long in watching anime to spot sarcasm; KyoAni seems to have a lot of sarcastic male protagonists...)
True, but that's what the cluster labeled "sarcasm" looks to me. Atypical examples don't justify the dismal centre.
... I'm having trouble phrasing this. When you say "communication" you're thinking of all those social thingies and dominance games When I say "communication" I'm thinking of "conveying facts and arguments". Let me then rephrase it; sarcasm doesn't enrich your argumentation, it doesn't make you right, it only signals that you're confident that you're right, which is a very unreliable and therefore worthless datum on whether you're actually right. In the larger context of social games, however, I can see how it can considerably "enrich" or rather "sophisticate" the interaction, but I'm a simple guy and I like talking straight.
Again, I challenge you to.