Fair enough. I started skimming around halfway through so I missed that.<p>I&#x27;d agree that there are limits to what you can read into the method of delivery, but:<p>I think anger and indignance are valid attitudes to have, and that seems largely what he&#x27;s defending. They&#x27;re not like smugness in that I can still imagine someone sincerely caring about the truth having them.<p>I&#x27;d also point out that I react with discomfort when I see smugness from my side, and annoyance when I see smugness from the other side, and these are physiological reactions that can&#x27;t exactly be controlled.<p>I guess I didn&#x27;t see much actual content in the Bond article (ironically, most of _that_ article was criticizing method of delivery), so the method of delivery was all I had to comment on.