It’s replies like this that have always made me question the tactical value of self-deprecation. (Touché? I think back to fights with others, who’d be like, I guess I’m just not as smart as you. Except in this case, it’s some total stranger who walks in on us and says it.) If it’s the truth, then there was no point in arguing in the first place, was there? And if it was simply meant as sarcasm, then what message is conveyed other than a lack of one of your own, and by backing down like this against an assertion of righteousness, however—no, especially rife for scorn—aren’t you only revealing an inferiority complex? And why have a battle of wills with someone who deep down knows he’s wrong, anyway?
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