I’ve spent the greater majority of the last two days wondering how best to reply to this comment. Because I do believe that it is important that I offer a response.

“I play the devil’s advocate to hopefully make people think more clearly about the things they strongly believe”

So much this! I swear, some guys cannot even fathom just not sharing their every thought with the strangers who unwittingly inspired those thoughts.

When a person does “Devil’s Advocate” it’s either because they want to annoy someone with nit-picky bullshit. Or it’s because they’re too much of a coward to present their contrary opinion as a contrary opinion.