Huh? I don’t understand. I’m not offended. Or I wasn’t.

I didn’t see the “bait.” I felt the sarcasm when he was sarcastic, but I didn’t see “bait” because, well, I am an objective observer. Perhaps it seemed like bait because you already didn’t like what he had to say? I don’t think you can say for sure what he intended with that comment.

I agree with Aura, but the loophole in her argument is me, I guess. I am emotional because I am a human being, yes, but I have actually changed my mind on logic alone and continue to. (I refer to Julia B.’s response on that score). I follow this guy on Twitter, for example, and, initially, I was so f***ing offended by his daily tweets that I wanted to throw the phone. But I realized that he was correct in many ways, and elicited such strong emotion in me because he was attacking my foundation (a lot of which was not correct). Normally, people dig in and hold as you said in reference to your pet peeve. The presidential election is a good example of the imminent threat of emotion-based thinking.

Weirdly, emotion-based thinking would be catastrophic to my life. I would be surrounded by a lot of harmful people if I focused on my emotions even at all.

I really like your conclusion, you know? ❤ Acknowledging that maybe you were saying the same s**t but in different ways.

Btw, I don’t know what happened either. I had that one-liner, and you asked me to elaborate, but sometimes I get confused with multiple threads. I wasn’t sure if in erasing my original message and writing a new one in its place, you would get the message again. Hence the @ you.