Originally Posted by
acidfast7
You sounded very dismissive of the value of perception by others. I think that's very naïve and am stating it, for the record

Not exactly. I dismiss spacey, totally unsupported statements about what other people
might be thinking as the guesswork and conjuring (at best) that they are, and certainly do not take such alleged "perceptions" as a given for the purpose of discussion.
Heck the OP did not claim having any perception of anything, but only repeated/tossed out some chum that he thinks he may have read or heard somewhere.