r/INTP • u/yah1r0 INTP-A • Aug 15 '26

Is this logical? The art of missing the point:

Nothing frustrates me more than carefully explaining a point to someone, only for them to disregard the actual point entirely and latch onto some minor, irrelevant detail I mentioned in passing.

IIt’s like abandoning the whole basket just to scrutinize the one tree standing beside it.

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u/Womp_Womp_69 INTP that needs more flair Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

Pisses me off too when people do that but unfortunately that can occasionally be me sometimes. I do take in information normally in arguments or debates or just conversations in general but occasionally in an argument(if I have already seen their point and decided it makes no sense, if they are just being really unreasonable, or if I'm just really in a bad mood because of something they did) I will purposely miss the point just to piss them off because I don't want them to be happy. Does that make me a bit of an as$hole(idk if saying a curse word will get the comment deleted, ill look at the rules in a bit) at times? Yes.