• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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      1 year ago

      In hind sight, I should have just ignored them and moved on.

      At the time I justified it as warrented when responding to a hostile straw man attack.

      The parent comment is in no way a reasonable response to merely quoting from a popular children’s book, and actually shows a failure to comprehend the statement quoted.

      Having failed to comprehend the text, the commenter then builds a straw man argument, and gets righteously indignant. They then doubled down on the straw man which is why they’re now blocked: I’ve no interest in engaging with a disingenuous commenter.

      If the comment had engaged in a reasoned discussion then my response would not have reciprocated the hostility.