Fair enough, might have been better to leave out those words completely. I also thought about writing an entire sentence on it, such as, "I am asking this in e

Fair enough, might have been better to leave out those words completely. I also thought about writing an entire sentence on it, such as, "I am asking this in earnest, not trying to make some point in a debate with a rhetorical question." But then I thought it would be too much.