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To: epicure who wrote (10705)4/25/2002 11:00:11 AM
From: Neocon  Respond to of 21057
 
"Understanding", if deployed in a way that makes the actions appear more sympathetic, is, indeed, a way of mitigating, if not exonerating, actions. There is, of course, such a thing as understanding that does not do that.......



To: epicure who wrote (10705)4/25/2002 11:03:51 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 21057
 
so many people seem to confuse understanding with excusing

I'm getting more and more cranky about that. I'm tired of having to add a little something about how I'm not excusing every time I say I understand something suboptimal lest someone gets the wrong idea. They're two entirely different words and two entirely different concepts, for heaven's sake. And when did trying to understand become a bad thing?

End of rant.


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