Caring about ideas and seeking truth are not one and the same thing. As for your father, I don't know, obviously.

I'm sorry you feel that way. I clearly crossed a line between expressing that I disagree w/ what you're saying and seeming to look down on you as a person. I still don't think I do the latter. Maybe (an insane?) part of me feels like you deserve better, because I expect more out of life. But that's not the same as looking down on you.