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"Sorni" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Michael Press wrote:
>
> > Of course they are more hurtful: those are the ones aimed
> > at you. The epithets you hurl apparently do not bother
> > you.
>
> Neither side is objective about all this, of course, so it's one more in a
> long line of essentially useless arguments for which I plead guilty. I
have
> this thing about bullies, unfairness, double standards, hypocrisy, etc.
and
> usually can't help myself from speaking up.
"speaking up" would be using terms like:
"asshole"
"pompous gasbag"
"jackass"
and so on?
(Just checking; you've admitted that your use of these tems is abusive, and
I'm just wondering if you think it is allright to be abusive in this way
when you are "speaking up" about, well, "abuse".)
news:[email protected]...
> Michael Press wrote:
>
> > Of course they are more hurtful: those are the ones aimed
> > at you. The epithets you hurl apparently do not bother
> > you.
>
> Neither side is objective about all this, of course, so it's one more in a
> long line of essentially useless arguments for which I plead guilty. I
have
> this thing about bullies, unfairness, double standards, hypocrisy, etc.
and
> usually can't help myself from speaking up.
"speaking up" would be using terms like:
"asshole"
"pompous gasbag"
"jackass"
and so on?
(Just checking; you've admitted that your use of these tems is abusive, and
I'm just wondering if you think it is allright to be abusive in this way
when you are "speaking up" about, well, "abuse".)