A Messenger In the Hand Is Worth Two Babies Thrown Out With the Bathwater

People in conversation have a habit of confusing someone attempting to identify and describe a particular point of view with someone stating an advocacy for that point of view. As a result, instead of "thinking about" they "argue with". This is very tiresome to an idea explorer. It is a dualistic, challenging method of facing off with concepts that has been mistakenly taught as "critical thinking".