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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (30776)2/13/1999 8:39:00 PM
From: E  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I am surprised at your characterization of your message to me. I suppose it could conceivably have been read like that.

This is the way it began:

<<Well, E, now I think I am beginning to
understand an essential difference in our
feelings about the death penalty, after your
saying to X that when you read about murderers
you want to kill them, that you want revenge, and
to have the person die slowly if it is a particularly
brutal murder.>>

I do not believe that it is 'spin' to have detected tendentiousness in your comments that followed.

Christine, I imagine that the most common way for arguments to end is for one party to change the subject to a meta-argument not responsive to the critique of their position, but rather about the manner of the argument or some other topic.

I think that is what is happening here. I don't see that much can be done about it, and agree that it has become unrewarding. I still think your position is riven with manifest contradictions, and I have found your unresponsiveness to my specific points frustrating. I believe the post to me that you now characterize as complimentary (I'd call that ex post facto spin) was covertly, but not very covertly, quite self-serving. But once the discussion has devolved to this point, we are in agreement that there is no point in continuing it.
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