Like I said, I saw your patience with TCDforever and was in one respect impressed, but another part of me thought that was a tremendous amount of wasted energy that could probably have been spent better elsewhere.

One last part, on this.

I find discussions like this a really good exercise on patience and reason, for me. I've learned from these sorts of conversations how to deal with conflict in real life. Plus, most of my replies to him only take a few minutes, and I'll do those while on the toilet or as little mini-breaks in between emails for my actual job.