For myself, I feel no need to push my ideas on anyone. But I do feel a need to push back when things that matter to me are misrepresented. Someone elese has mentioned (on this thread?) that anything which discomfits us about someone else is telling us something about ourselves. Can't remember which psychologist said that, but I see the truth in it. I quite obviously feel defensive about some things. More interestingly for myself, I have always been very defensive around absolutists, I suspect because I'm an absolutist myself in spite of my best efforts. So I'm not justifying being defensive, just describing it for my own benefit. But it's never as simple as that, is it? In my job, I evangelise, to sell ideas and projects to investors. But curiously, they're all secular projects...... I wouldn't have ended up doing what I do, if I couldn't evangelise. lol