There have been many, many instances here lately where I wrote something, then another one replied to it, but obviously didn't bother to read a section properly - resulting in things like reiterating their assertion rather than defending it, committing the same mistakes, and what not.

That's the kind of thing I mean by "defense mechanism" - your brain starts to fight, starts to skip over passages that appear uncomfortable, and maybe then tries to overcompensate by being overly sarcastic or dismissive.

Now there's no excuse for that, no matter how badly I'm making my point, and it has nothing directly to do with "not agreeing" or "not complying", either.

Having that said, I'm pretty sure I do give arguments for my positions - last time (was that something about Ebert's sex obsession?) I may have tossed a few assertions at the beginning, but I've proceeded to make arguments after that.
So yea, hey, that's what I remember.