> I could just say "In my humble opinion" One problem I've noticed with the way human beings communicate is that for any given situation, there's no way of kno

> I could just say "In my humble opinion" One problem I've noticed with the way human beings communicate is that for any given situation, there's no way of knowing whether the person speaking is doing so with an implicit "imho", or whether they mean the things they say literally. In this case, I thought that you were speaking literally. I wonder how much this phenomenon (and others like it) contributes to the amount of polarization and disharmony we are experiencing in the world right now, or in the past for that matter, all without our knowledge or interest.