Sure. And sometimes those goals don’t involve understanding, and involve twisting other people’s words, obscuring the topic, and substituting meanings to edge the conversation towards a predefined conclusion, just as you suggest. In fact, that’s not uncommon. Agreed.
If you mean to suggest by that that I ought not be irritated by you attributing those properties to me, or that I ought not disengage from the conversation in consequence, well, perhaps you’re right. Nevertheless I am irritated, and am consequently disengaging.
Sure. And sometimes those goals don’t involve understanding, and involve twisting other people’s words, obscuring the topic, and substituting meanings to edge the conversation towards a predefined conclusion, just as you suggest. In fact, that’s not uncommon. Agreed.
If you mean to suggest by that that I ought not be irritated by you attributing those properties to me, or that I ought not disengage from the conversation in consequence, well, perhaps you’re right. Nevertheless I am irritated, and am consequently disengaging.