[mmooss]

IMHO when we choose ridicule, we destroy that relationship - we make clear we are uninsterested in what the other person has to say or in reason, or even in respecting them on a basic level, and that we lack worthwhile arguments. I stop reading there. I understand the temptation but life is too short.

[andrewflnr]

Oh, so you pattern-matched on a single word and skipped the part where I did, in fact, make an argument. Great work.

But more importantly, where did MarkusQ ridicule you? What's your excuse for not reading what they actually said, but instead imagining something they said that was conveniently easy to criticize?

The important part of my phrase "laughably bad-faith" was the bad-faith part. That's what destroys "that relationship".