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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: haqihana who wrote (17963)5/2/2000 7:31:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
>If you are so smart, why, so far, has no one else agreed with your assessment of
PROLIFE's mental deficiencies. Maybe because they exist nowhere except in your
<unnecessary pejoratives> mind.<

I can give a reason or two. I've followed the argument for a few beats and have seen how polarized it got. While I agree with E's points pretty much to the letter, I would have drawn the line at suggesting that PROLIFE might be retarded. Imo there ain't no call for that sort of thing.
So for someone to pipe up in E's defense here would be kind of like taping a big PUNCH ME sign to [his] chest.

The irony of the situation is that E has been technically fastidious throughout this argument. Everything she said shows that she is a careful thinker and listener. But how she responded got a bit aggressive toward the end there (in my assessment) - and since it is a basic human trait to associate the message with the messenger, folks started taking stuff personal, and acting on it. E might have made allowances for that, but otoh I'm asking you to consider that she believes in what she was posting as strongly as PROLIFE believed in what he was advancing as fact, even after it had been unmasked as, uhm, not making good sense.

OK, "PUNCH ME"
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