E, I am up at this hour because our dog threw up (noisely on the carpet).
I know you don't need that information, but I don't wish you to think that I am losing sleep over what has happened here. Although, having peeked in here, I admit it is stopping me from getting to back to sleep.
The message you are referring here could hardly (IMO) be considered shameful and vicious, unless it is the cop-killer reference which has pushed your button. I could see that such reference could provoke a visceral reaction. If you read the reference in context, you will see that the cop-killer appellation would apply not to you, but to the "whoever you are" mentioned in my post; i.e., the person changing their name. The reason I used it was that the thread had very recently been discussing an article about the cop-killer and his effort to change his name, and it was simply in my head as a lead-in to name changing. It was probably an inappropriate reference, given that the substance of my post was a criticism of you, and that one could think that I was hoping for readers to draw some subliminal connection between you and the cop-killer. That was certainly NOT what I was hoping for, but I apologize to you unwisely including, needlessly, something in my post that could have been so-interpreted.
Or ... perhaps "cop-killer" is not your point .... and you just consider it shameful and vicious that I would recommend, facetiously, that people change their names because you have been revealed as one who discloses true identities.
In the second case, I will not apologize, but simply disagree with you. In this case, I think my use of the name-changing idea was a legitimate way for me to have chastised you in a sarcastic vein, and is neither vicious or shameful.
This particular matter is now laid out before the greater jury of readers to draw their own conclusions.
I see that you have had much more to say on the other subject that has arisen. I am finding now that I don't have the energy to tackle that one after all, but will address it with my thoughts on the morrow. |
