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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (1915)	7/20/2005 10:35:07 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) of 540950

It wasn't about sugar coating it. It was about acknowledging reality. That you see it as sugar coating, is about as logical as the frenzy people got in to when I said suicide bombers weren't cowards. Just because someone is bad, it doesn't mean you can't describe them appropriately. Just because someone is a terrorist, it doesn't mean when we put out an APB on them we want to say "and they are UGLY too." Can you see how it might be unhelpful to try to throw in qualifiers that are not apt, or exclude ones that are? It shouldn't mitigate what is dangerous and criminal to adequately describe something- and in the end, it ought to help you fight the thing you find dangerous. If you oversimplify you can be prone to mistakes.

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