It's always worth giving people the benefit of the doubt on the first time. After that....guess there's one exception I still make. I learned that it's called "

It's always worth giving people the benefit of the doubt on the first time. After that....guess there's one exception I still make. I learned that it's called "sealioning". When someone repeatedly, dishonestly professes ignorance as a way of making an obtuse argument. I see a bit of that wilful ignorance here on HN when people say things like "I don't see why... <self evident, commonly known truth>"