This is the problem. It’s not a discussion of ideas if you fail to address mine and just use it as an opportunity to push yours. It’s not just sharing a different viewpoint or adding to a conversation if you just show up without paying attention to anyone else and just start talking over them. That is not how dialogue works. That is not how learning happens. Until you are prepared to consider the arguments of others, your pretenses at civil dialogue are false ones. You came to teach, not to discuss. That is an arrogant way to approach the world, and it prevents you from learning, growing, and engaging in true civil discourse. I wasn’t insulted that you wanted to share another viewpoint, but that you didn’t care to actually know mine first. Mine was irrelevant to you.