It’s also the pattern I’d expect from someone who wasn’t interested in engaging,
“Uninterested in engaging” and “defensive” feel very different to me. “Defensive” implies that you’re motivated to prove something, either to yourself or others. But you can be uninterested in engaging despite being confident that you’re doing the right thing, simply because it doesn’t feel like you’d get a lot of value in explaining yourself in this particular discussion. There’s a lot of things that employees for organizations like CFAR could be doing; getting into long online discussions may not be the best use of their time, even if they had perfectly good answers.
“Uninterested in engaging” and “defensive” feel very different to me. “Defensive” implies that you’re motivated to prove something, either to yourself or others. But you can be uninterested in engaging despite being confident that you’re doing the right thing, simply because it doesn’t feel like you’d get a lot of value in explaining yourself in this particular discussion. There’s a lot of things that employees for organizations like CFAR could be doing; getting into long online discussions may not be the best use of their time, even if they had perfectly good answers.