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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (53592)8/31/1999 8:29:00 PM
From: E   of 108807
 
<<<There is a difference between opposition and imposition. One defines an existing act as unacceptable and demands that it be ceased, or rescinded, or not repeated, [the other] one requires that an act be committed.>>>

(Hope it's okay that I stuck "the other" in to make the meaning clearer; it stymied me for a second or two.)

You seem to be saying here that if you are in the "imposition" mode, you're a true believer; if you are merely in "opposition" mode, you are moderate.

In the real world, the opposition "rescinding" may perfectly well require that an act be committed every bit as actively as the original "imposing" did.

What is the chicken and what the egg is not always perfectly clear. Though it is likely to feel perfectly clear to both sides in any dispute-- each will feel it to be defending itself from unjust impositions, acts that have been committed against it. "He hit me back first" is heard in nursery schools daily.
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