" - perhaps that's a good idea but I feel like some confusion remains, and I wish I understood it. If the person came in to yell angrily at me about the people in Avernus, and I thought they were a kind of strategic person in general, I'd assume they thought I was...missing some deeply felt sense of what it was like to truly and acutely appreciate the harm of Avernus, and trying to convey it to me, in case I actually hadn't encountered anything that'd given me a deeply felt sense of that, or helped me notice that some intuition of mine applied to the situation which I hadn't been applying.
This isn't what I was doing when I asked if you denominated internal spending in billions of murders enabled, that was just me hating you and wanting you to know it because I was scared and miserable and would've been delighted if you'd lit me on fire for it, but it's what I'd expect the person was doing, and it'd...sometimes work if they were right, and not otherwise, just like other ways of trying to communicate?"