@karlauerbach I honor you for being humble enough to ask a good question. _/_
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@msbellows Thanks for the nice words.
In law school I would plop down in the front row, put my boots up on the table, and pepper the professor with questions until I fully understood.
(I figured that the profs were working for me.)
Some profs loved it - they understood that legal training is teaching us to pursue an accurate perception of things, and thus recognizing what one does not fully comprehend and repairing that comprehension is a major part of legal training.
Other profs hated it.
But I also find that gentle questioning is a good way to build bridges between seemingly hostile opponents - it shows that we are listening and trying to understand what they are saying. It is a form of honoring the person of whom we are asking the question. And often we discover that our differences are not real; that we have substantial agreements but simply have articulated them in different ways.
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