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Are the “proofs by contradiction” weaker than other proofs?
I have been active on this site for two months and on a few occasions I noticed that some people judge contradiction proofs as being less direct(and less elegant) than proofs which do not use contradiction.
In my first year of college I gave headaches to my seminar teacher and my colleagues because I used most of the time proof by contradiction. For me it seemed so natural to argue by contradiction whenever I didn't have any idea to how to proceed in solving the problem directly. At least when you prove something by contradiction, you have a start point, a supplementary hypothesis on which you can develop the following arguments searching for a contradiction with the hypothesis or previous work (theorems, problems, etc.).
Therefore, my question is:
Why do some consider that contradiction proofs are not that good as direct proofs?