While I agree completely with this comment, I’m upvoting almost entirely because of this sentence:
Thanks, it felt like just leaving the refutation there was more argumentative when I intended more discussion/elaboration so I tried to preemptively de-escalate and emphasize that we mostly agreed.
Thanks, it felt like just leaving the refutation there was more argumentative when I intended more discussion/elaboration so I tried to preemptively de-escalate and emphasize that we mostly agreed.