>If the intent is not to further the conversation by improving it and moving it forward, there's no constructive purpose in making it. It is an attempt to star

>If the intent is not to further the conversation by improving it and moving it forward, there's no constructive purpose in making it. It is an attempt to start a different conversation. You could argue that it's off-topic, and choose not to follow up, but that doesn't mean it's not potentially constructive. >there's no sincere attempt to understand or charitably grant that the interlocutor might be have a reasonable argument They didn't claim that you don't have a reasonable argument to make, they just asked you to use different (more precise) terminology to make it.