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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I guess this is how people get to the assumption that the people they're arguing with must be just dishonest, because it seems the most likely explanation after you've explained something in several thousand words and they still completely miss the point. I think that in fact you're honest, that this was honest confusion on your part and you seem like a good guy, but it's really obnoxious to have someone completely distort your views and then call you a hypocrite. Especially when it seems like clarifying those views for the tenth time is just going to fall on deaf ears.
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I think, at this point, you can say that I'll never really understand your position. Whether it's because I'm just not smart enough, or your position doesn't actually make as much sense as you think it makes, is probably down to life experience.
At a certain point, a view is not going to become "clear", nor is it fair to say it's being distorted by one side or the other. That suggests there is an interpretation that is correct, when nobody can really decide how another's life experience colours their view of things.
It's the same reason why some empathise with BLM and others absolutely hate them. It's not that one is right and one is wrong, it's that lacking life experience on the "other" side makes empathy extremely difficult.