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

To: The Philosopher who wrote (73227)	8/25/2003 2:40:09 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"That if I said something to you which I intended to be insulting, but if you chose not to take offense by it or to consider it an insult, then I had not insulted you. I had tried, but failed." I am either harmed by your comment or I am not. I may choose to deal with you or the information in a variety of ways. I may, in fact, view the comment as inappropriate but not feel harmed by it. In which case I would not feel/be insulted. That does not mean that the comment would not be insulting (harmful) to others that are implicated by it. Miss Manners (society) may accurately label it an insult, even though I have not been personally harmed by it.