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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Neocon who wrote (46527)7/23/1999 11:14:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
> But can
we ever be free of the implication that the people involved were worthless when such jokes are made? <

well YES. Of course. It becomes our duty as responsible adults to observe the compartment between a tasteless but un-malicious joke and any real judgment of the people involved. If we DON'T practice that sort of internal remove, that assumed discharge of "implication", we end up descending into a sort of PC Hell where most everybody is easily offended by an unauthorized opinion.

Look. I bear no ill will toward JFK Junior. If you inspect my postings you'll see that I scrupulously avoided voicing any opinion over the media saturation campaign. I do believe that there is something at once hypocritical and quintessentially American at idolizing J Jr. as a victim. Let's face it - he wasn't a victim. He didn't make "a" mistake - he engaged in a chain of at least four reprehensible and sequential, cumulative overrides of sound judgment. He overpaid to be sure. But there should be no shock or surprise from smart, worldly folk that he got into a lethal bind. When you fly stupid, stuff happens. The real victims are his passengers. They deserve our unqualified sympathy imho. But for so many to vent their wrath on Steve for posting refreshing and cathartic bits of wonderfully awful humor is - well I disapprove, let's leave it at that.

If we can't joke about dying, what is the fun in living>

OK, this is my rant on the subject - I'll lie low until Feelies has emptied its colon of this particular bout of PC sentiment.
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