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

To: epicure who wrote (60804)	10/2/2002 7:12:53 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Substitute "duty-bound" for "obligated" in what I wrote, then. You see, we are in agreement that the distinction isn't between dutiful individual ones and undutiful ones. (IMO, it's between civilized and feral ones.) They were not, imo, "obligated" to apologize, or to explain. Just as they aren't "obligated" to care about the way anyone else feels, ever, even when it can hurt them to be inconsiderate and casual in cases where they are implicated in others' discomfiture. When our friends apologized, I thought of this thread, and of how there are people here who wouldn't have, and who would have not cared whether the late arrivals recognized and regretted the experience we had had and that they had been the agents of; and showed it by apologizing.