2025/02/05 Some arguments or disputes love being the center of attention, especially when either are the result of one person trying to get one up on another. As a certain Monty Python character observed, an argument is an intellectual process; contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says. Consider how much sheer stubbornness could be prolonging an exchange that could do with being removed from a tense rut it has become stuck in.