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To: Constant Reader who wrote (23432)	8/20/2001 5:57:24 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 82486

Something about your message occurred to me while I was pounding away on the treadmill that hadn't at the time. What you didn't say seems as important as what you did say. What you didn't say was that the posts I cited didn't support brees's statements. I don't want to put words into your keyboard, but it seems to me that you are implicitly agreeing that from those posts it was not unreasonable for brees to have concluded, if he believed that X was writing truthfully and not jokingly, that his conclusions about X were one possible valid interpretation of her posts. Not the only one. Not necessarily the objectively "right" one (if such a thing exists, which X would probably argue against since she has argued, in general terms, that all right and wrong is subjective). But one possible valid interpretation. I don't want to belabor this point, but I think it is meaningful in moving the discussion from "did X ever say things that could have been construed to justify the positions brees attributed to her" to "well, yes, she said those things but brees should have known she was only joking." That does change the posture of the discussion somewhat, IMO.

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