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

To: epicure who wrote (14971)	5/30/2001 10:11:12 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

No actually I didn't just decide it was easy. It is easy for me to think of an objective gossip because I have listened to lectures on the subject and now it seems easy and straight forward. Gossip is gossip and there is no guess work about whether it qualifies as gossip. Gossip may in fact be truthful information and usually is. One does not start where the other leaves off. Gossip is the spreading of information in a bad way (as you suggested). Using what may be the truth about someone as some sort of destructive tool. Giving information to people who have no good use for that information can lead to nothing but hurt. It is not gossip if I call my sister's Doctor up and tell her that my sister has become an addict and is abusing her prescription. It is gossip if I give this information to my cousins husband over some beers, simply because there was a lul in the conversation. Rumour is like gossip only no one is sure where the information came from or even if it is true.