To lay cards on the table, what are you trying to accomplish with this back and forth with me? I’m trying to find common ground and make some important distinctions, but it seems to me like you’re trying to vent or cut off the discussion. Is that what you’re trying to do?
By no means. I am saying true and relevant things, in response to things you are saying which seem to me to be seriously mistaken. The purpose of this is to enable all of us to become less wrong about these very important issues.
In my experience, this is also a euphemism for “threats to the status of high-status people” approximately 99% of the time.
To lay cards on the table, what are you trying to accomplish with this back and forth with me? I’m trying to find common ground and make some important distinctions, but it seems to me like you’re trying to vent or cut off the discussion. Is that what you’re trying to do?
By no means. I am saying true and relevant things, in response to things you are saying which seem to me to be seriously mistaken. The purpose of this is to enable all of us to become less wrong about these very important issues.
I don’t perceive you as having understood what I was saying, or as having addressed my central points.
Please feel free to point out what you think I got wrong, what I missed, etc.