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

To: The Philosopher who wrote (73151)	8/24/2003 5:19:28 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I acknowledged that you can take it as you choose, and I knew how you'd choose to take it. I often choose to interpret insults as something more benign or to just ignore them. That can be usefully disarming as well as good for one's blood pressure. So I get your point. No matter how one receives it though, what is delivered is still an insult, although my purpose wasn't to insult, just to get away from you and your "debating style." Perhaps one day you'll actually say something that focuses an issue rather than scatters it or runs it into the ground. And perhaps some day you'll tell us what you actually think about something rather than toying with an issue. In the meantime, I get no useful insights and plenty of headaches interacting with you. It's a shame. I'm glad to hear, though, that you're not insulted by my insult. Really, that was the last thing on my mind.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (73151)	8/24/2003 5:42:29 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

One has no control over another's acts. But one has absolute -- ABSOLUTE -- control over how one decides to perceive them. If someone is subjected to intercourse against her will and is not physically injured, can the act be "decided" not to have been rape, if the victim "wants to consider it such"? Does reality get decided out of existence? How about if one is robbed? Can a robbery be decided by its victim to have been a charitable donation if he or she notes during the commission that the, if I may be so bold, robber is poorly dressed, or perhaps because the victim has no time for a trip to the police station? Would deciding that make it so?