Actually any time in poker where I think I have the best hand and put my money into the center I WANT the opponent to call, because that is how I make money. According to your logic...("you don't want to see the next street and get outdrawn") you would always want opponents to fold draws and only continue with made hands against you? Doesn't sound like a very profitable form of poker in my opinion.
1st of all. where did u see me say always? Only in certain very very wet boards when your made hand is extremely vulnerable to be outdrawn. You want to make it very expensive for villain to see another street(and at the same time maximise your value)(you dont wanna scare him off a hand but u dont wanna make him get there cheap)
For example, lets say you have AK on a board of A92 and you infer that your opponent is continuing with a flush draw. According to your logic you wouldn't want the opponent to call your flop bet(or rather you would be indifferent to whether he called or folded) because he might make a better hand than you by the river. That sounds like psychological flaws brought on by your memory placing greater weight on the times you have been sucked out on than the times your opponent called all streets and then folded when he missed his draw, leaving you with that extra profit.
This example is totally irrelevant to the hand in play here and also not a very very wet board(except for the flush draw.)again ur argument is irrelevant. we dont protect here like we do on superwet boards. we just try to get enough value without scarring anyone off.As far as psychological flaws are concerned, i think that your getting a bit carried away here. keep it objective.
When I have a good hand I VALUE bet (meaning I WANT the opponent to call with weaker aces or flush/straight draws) but I rarely bet with a strong hand hoping the opponent folds so my hand is "protected". Obviously I can think of a few small exceptions like maybe in a huge tournament where I flop a strong hand but i'm against multiple opponents and I do a massive overbet on the flop, hoping they will fold. Such big overbets would be classified as a semi-bluff because the intention of the bet is to get opponents to fold. Your statement "you don't care whether the opponent calls or folds" also is largely misguided because I always want my value bets to be called so I make that profit and I always want my bluffs to get folds so I can take down the existing pot. Anyways, your logic ignores the infinitely valuable concept of tailoring bet sizes to achieve different things. If you start making overbets everytime you think your opponent is drawing they will likely fold and you will only get played back at by the nuts, which will lose you a great deal of money in the long term. I think the poker community would be better-served by ditching the term "protecting" a hand and instead embrace the concept of betting for value against weaker hands.