Multicore
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Well, yes and no. That's a cultural thing.No hostility - but we will robustly correct falsehoods stated as facts.
Telling you that you are wrong != hostility.
Kilgore Trout ably expressed the situation as reported in Breakfast of Champions.
Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enmity.

A quote from Breakfast of Champions
And here, according to Trout, was the reason human beings could not reject ideas because they were bad: Ideas on Earth were badges of friendship or enmi...
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But I learned from experience working in certain other cultures that this is not correct. Trout is right about UK and US, and to an extent about some other places I worked in Europe but in a couple of other countries I was pleased to find that I didn't need to be so careful in explaining how someone is wrong. All that work I was accustomed to doing to show more senior colleagues that such-and-such was their belief all along, or as close as I could manage, was just a waste of time with these people. I loved it. But I also had to get used to being bluntly told I was wrong.