I said this:
and this:
I did NOT state or imply that matter only radiates towards warmer objects. The list of questions in that first quote were all sourced from the mistaken poster beliefs that justified FlaCalTenn creating this sticky thread. It may be before your time, but there were a few posters here, primarily SSDD, who steadfastly argued that matter would NOT radiate towards warmer matter. Unless we've been confused by your non-answers, you seem to be advocating something similar. You were correct to note the net radiative transfer.