I try hard to avoid attacking people (even if they attack me), and address the points of whatever argument, observation or value judgment (if any) was made in a

I try hard to avoid attacking people (even if they attack me), and address the points of whatever argument, observation or value judgment (if any) was made in a comment. I figure I won't change the mind of someone so obviously misguided, but I can still make the case for the reader who is trying to sort things out.