Ah! I was taking “I’m not that dumb” at the object level of the disagreement, as preventing you from considering that your counterpart may be right. You meant it at the pattern level, where you didn’t want to believe you were stuck in the loop in the first place.
That part makes sense, but I still think the underlying error is not considering that the disagreement may be unimportant without the person being unimportant, or that you might be wrong rather than them.
Ah! I was taking “I’m not that dumb” at the object level of the disagreement, as preventing you from considering that your counterpart may be right. You meant it at the pattern level, where you didn’t want to believe you were stuck in the loop in the first place.
That part makes sense, but I still think the underlying error is not considering that the disagreement may be unimportant without the person being unimportant, or that you might be wrong rather than them.