>> When I ask ‘what did I say that made you thunk that’, can you explain why you rarely answer? > Okay, sure. > When you ask me to try and justify why I think

>> When I ask ‘what did I say that made you thunk that’, can you explain why you rarely answer? > Okay, sure. > When you ask me to try and justify why I think you hold your position, At this point it’s hard to read you as honest because of the frequency with which you misrepresent me. I have to assume you are unaware of this. I am talking about why you won’t identify which words of mine lead to your misunderstandings of my position. Why would you represent that as asking you to ‘justify’ your interpretation? That isn’t what I’m doing, and more importantly it’s not something I said. I’m just asking you to tell me what you are interpreting so I can see if what I said was ambiguous and if so how. > I interpret that as a distraction (hopefully a good faith one). A distraction from what? Are you not seeking to understand? Later in this comment you claim to want to know what my views are. If you ignore clarifying questions as a ‘distraction’, it seems likely that misunderstandings will keep arising. > I don't want to argue on a meta-level about why I got confused about your comments, Who is asking you to ‘argue on a meta-level’? I am asking you to simply say what words you are referring to when a misunderstanding becomes apparent. > I want to know what you believe. I recommend trying to get to the bottom of misunderstandings then. > I'm frustrated that you keep trying to dig into "why are you confused" You misrepresent me again. Can you not see that I haven’t asked ‘why are you confused’? I have asked what you are referring to when you attribute a view to me that I don’t think is contained in what I wrote. > instead of just clarifying your position. I could clarify my position if you were willing to tell me what I said that lead to your interpretations of my views.