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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (346344)	1/23/2003 2:23:59 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I am really not trying to avoid your question. I guess I don't exactly understand it. To use an epithet against ANYONE will likely be offensive to them. The problem is some people may consider a word that is really quite valid to be an epithet. That is what is happening here. Civilization demands we try to respect the essential humanity of all people because that humanity is us. But we need not respect the inhumanity (such as homosexuality) of people because that inhumanity is not us and indeed maybe contrary to us, at least philosophically. So then if someone should scorn the inhumanity of another, I will not generally take offense. But should one scorn the humanity of another, I will generally be quite offended because philosophically that person offends me personally.