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

To: epicure who wrote (48329)	5/28/2002 12:14:17 AM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

no friend to you either. I am crushed. I will have to go cry myself to sleep. Good night.

To: epicure who wrote (48329)	5/28/2002 8:43:11 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

People here tend to confuse civility with friendship, and I've no idea why I think it's mostly just the semantics of "friend" or "friendship." Kind of like how we (the U.S.) might consider Syria a friend one week but not the next. Perhaps using "friend" as an alternate to "ally." I think that while some of us may use "friend" somewhat casually or even inappropriately, we all (the sane among us, that is) do realize that it would be a rare thing indeed to form a true friendship just by interacting with someone anonymously over the Net.