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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (11379)	4/15/2001 12:33:08 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

"Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do to destroy it." Lady Morella, the prophetess widow of Centauri Emperor Touranne - #309, episode 53 of Babylon 5

To: epicure who wrote (11379)	4/15/2001 6:02:19 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Yes, in life I'm pretty tolerant of everything except meanness and rudeness. "Nice" means a lot to me and I try not to associate with people I think aren't "nice." I have one friend who isn't nice. I put up with it (I say, "You're in bitch mode now," and she denies it but stops it) because we've been friends for a long time and life kind of tests her more than anyone deserves to be tested. I used to have more of them, unnice but interesting in some way, friends, but at a certain point I thought, well, if they can't be nice to, for example, a harried waiter, or their spouse, or their children, fukum, I'm not hanging out with them. I once told a male friend that he was habitually rude to people, giving numerous examples, and he totally freaked, it was an amazing social scene; I mean freaked; it was clearly against his (leftist) ideology to be horribly rude to people and he had evidently never had it pointed out to him before; and... he's been extreeeemly nice, at least in front of me, for several years now, lol. Also, and incidentally, speaking of how tolerant I am, I never, ever try to force anyone to have an abortion however advisable I might think it would be for them to do so, and would vote against any law that tried to do such a thing. I also support not subjecting the children of theists to freethought philosophical readings in public settings, schools and so on. It wouldn't be nice, imo.