Indeed, I find any time you explain yourself and people keep bringing up the particular phrasing you used while ignoring your clarifications, that’s a sure sign that they just want to argue for the sake of it.
I really don’t, I hate arguing and it stresses me out, but with comrades I take pains to try and explain why I’m arguing rather than start a shit-flinging fight. Usually I can actually get somewhere with that, not just getting back “nope I see no inconsistency between my repeated shitty, harmful framing and my later professed position on psychedelic therapy, I did absolutely nothing wrong or that could even reasonably be misinterpreted”
Here’s the thing, it’s fine to misinterpret what somebody else said, but when you keep harping on the original wording once they’ve repeatedly said that was not the intended meaning, that’s not very productive. At that point you’re ignoring the intent and are simply arguing for the sake of arguing instead of trying to have any sort of a productive discussion. It’s just playing gotcha! See, see, the word you used could be interpreted the way I want to interpret it as opposed to the way you keep saying you meant for it to be interpreted.
Indeed, I find any time you explain yourself and people keep bringing up the particular phrasing you used while ignoring your clarifications, that’s a sure sign that they just want to argue for the sake of it.
I really don’t, I hate arguing and it stresses me out, but with comrades I take pains to try and explain why I’m arguing rather than start a shit-flinging fight. Usually I can actually get somewhere with that, not just getting back “nope I see no inconsistency between my repeated shitty, harmful framing and my later professed position on psychedelic therapy, I did absolutely nothing wrong or that could even reasonably be misinterpreted”
Here’s the thing, it’s fine to misinterpret what somebody else said, but when you keep harping on the original wording once they’ve repeatedly said that was not the intended meaning, that’s not very productive. At that point you’re ignoring the intent and are simply arguing for the sake of arguing instead of trying to have any sort of a productive discussion. It’s just playing gotcha! See, see, the word you used could be interpreted the way I want to interpret it as opposed to the way you keep saying you meant for it to be interpreted.