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If I wanted to stop you commenting in my articles I'd have blocked you. Simple. If you remain unblocked, you are obviously welcome to continue commenting. If you choose to stop commenting or paying to subscribe, that's your choice. I've never tried to push you in either direction. Stop playing the victim.

I find you incredibly irritating to talk to for no other reason that you don't think very deeply and simultaneously aren't willing to listen. You very often have an incredibly superficial understanding of the facts, but whether it's your ego or just the Dunning-Kruger effect, you can never recognise this. So when people point out that you're wrong, you just start blathering about different "truths."

So if your goal is to "facilitate clarity," and you regularly receive the feedback (from people who aren't your daughter) that you're failing, does there ever come a point where that leads to a little bit of self examination? Do you ever, for example, ask what someone means rather than telling them what they think or what retreats they should go on?

Do you ever have one of your points refuted and think, even privately, "ah, I was wrong there, I won't repeat that same argument in the very next conversation,"?

You're very engaged on these topics. That's great. I genuinely welcome engagement and disagreement. But man, try approaching conversations as just conversations instead of as "debates" that you're trying to win. On the rare occasions when you do that, we get along fine.

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