> Sealioning thus works both to exhaust a target's patience, attention, and communicative effort, and to portray the target as unreasonable. I deeply apologize

> Sealioning thus works both to exhaust a target's patience, attention, and communicative effort, and to portray the target as unreasonable. I deeply apologize if providing a single, one-sentence answer has exhausted your patience and attention. Your dismissal is of course correct - anyone that asks the most basic clarifying questions, as I have done, is doing so maliciously. If they weren't malicious, they would simply concede that you are correct, and that would be the end of the debate.