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To: D. Long who wrote (204138)4/25/2007 2:06:53 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793964
 
There is a difference between failing to respect her rationality (whether that is exercised wrongly or not) and recognizing her immoral act (lies are bad). The two are apples and oranges.

I don't see your distinction. Disrespect is disrespect.

Bear in mind that you're making judgments based on your opinions. It is your opinion that she's an idiot. And it's your opinion that she lied to cover it up. Neither of those is a fact. If she was, indeed, joking, then your disrespect for her alleged immoral act is grievously disrespectful.

She said it was a joke several days after the fact.

That doesn't prove anything. There are other plausible explanations for that.

Your whole framework for apples and oranges is predicated on the assumption that it was not a joke. I understand how you would make that assumption but it is still an assumption based on your attitude about her and her ilk. If you aren't stuck with the "idiocy" prism, there are reasonable alternatives for the response time.

If I were to insist she was merely joking when she asserted that she was serious, I would be showing her the paternalistic disrespect you claimed. But I am simply taking her at her word in the face of ambiguity.

[I am choosing to ignore your drift from "idiocy" to "meaning what she says" to "rationality" despite the kinship between "meaning what she says" and lying. <gg>]
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