" For what it's worth, I apologize for coming across the way I did and using such strongly worded language."

Okay. That sounds good. And I'm sorry if I spoke too strongly to you. It's just that this site gets a lot of shills and when you go on the attack like you did right from the start the natural response is to think "Oh great, another shill".

It didn't need to escalate the way it did. I was open to discussion, but all I saw was how you attacked me for no reason. This is why it's easy for real shills to infiltrate us. Often users here make themselves sound no different than them.

How do we distinguish friend from foe?

"I mean no malice. I only care about the truth and sharing truth".

And that I respect. I wish you would have approached me with that tone. It would have saved us both a lot of unnecessary fighting.

Unfortunately it is so easy for shills to set us on each other because we often sound no different from them. We use their same language. This is something that commenters here need to think about. I fall for it too and my shields go up.