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Are you telling me that I apply this as a dark arts tactic to avoid being persuaded? That is, are you calling me stupid and arrogant? I insist that one of those does not apply!
EDIT: Oh, wait, you could be suggesting that I'm trying to portray XiXiDu as stupid and arrogant? I deny that charge. It doesn't apply in this instance and when I do say things that are insulting my track record indicates that I say them rather directly. In fact, I point out that it is XiXiDu that calls himself stupid and on more than one occasion I have flat out denied and contradicted his claim.
EDIT: Never mind. Parent changed. New reply:
Huh? No it isn't. It's an agreement with XiXiDu's point. It is an phenomenon that applies and, I suggest, one that is implemented to a certain context sensitive degree by humans.
Oh sorry I thought you where being sarcastic and that you where disagreeing with XiXiDu and perhaps even setting up a straw man. Maybe the reason I misidentified this is because of your use of "arrogant". When I think of protective stupidity I don't associate that word with it.