I respect you intellectually and have absolutely no desire to interact with you on an emotionally complicated level.

translation:

Hey man, you're cool, but I'm not interested in being friends or acting like a friend with you. Nah, when people get their emotions involved it's just way too much, so I stay out of all that shit. I only want to talk to you about situations that you don't care deeply about, because when you care deeply about something, man, like, I just have no interest in listening to you because we might disagree or I might have to, idk, actually hear the words that you're saying.

serious question:

what topics aren't emotionally complicated?