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Crossing into personal attack is not cool. We ban accounts that do that. Please don't.
I assure you it wasn't a personal attack anymore than gerbilly's "obtuse" comment (and again, giving that person the benefit of the doubt, as I have throughout this thread). You and I are definitely on different wavelengths, but ignoring for a moment that someone flagged multiple of my comments (and not making any assumptions about that), nothing approaching spite or malice went into this thread.
No I'm not often surprised, but it is interesting to run across someone who thinks so differently from me.
In fact I've had a great deal of experience with a person exhibiting what seems like a similar cluster of behaviours.
Call it a kind of 'professional curiosity', which is why I kept the thread going past the point where any agreement seemed possible.
A poster here one said that "everyone thinks their experiences are normative". I suspect both of us are perhaps doing that.
I wish you well, and I don't mean to sound disparaging.