Almost. I’m not acting in bad faith and actually want to understand the viewpoint. This last time I was getting empty and irrelevant platidudes to my direct questions, and they didn’t like me pointing that out. I’ve ended plenty of other conversations saying that we clearly have different opinions or values, but I understand better where they are coming from and thank them for explaining it to me.

Edit: I suppose I did sealion at least once back in high school. A girl snarkily asked me, “why are you wearing that?” And when I started to answer, she interrupted saying, “see, I don’t really care.” I told her that was too bad and she probably shouldn’t have asked before following her until I was done with my extended history over my t-shirt.