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To: jlallen who wrote (230179)	5/8/2007 12:47:21 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Controlling one's temper when one realizes there are consequences to unleashing it is hardly phony. I don't want to create any more enemies like you, or some of the other inctractable followers I seem to have picked up over the years- and which, it seems, only death will make go away. Had I continued that style of posting I undoubtedly would have made more of them. How unfortunate that would have been. If you are honest with yourself you will realize you are still angry with me for something I said years ago, and which was true (and thus not phony), but which should not have been said since it hurt you. It would have been no skin off my nose not to say it, but I didn't see the point of being "polite" and not saying the first thing I wanted to say. For that I get you, and your feelings, to deal with for years. That was fire with fire, JLA- I can't say I've enjoyed our years together. Maybe you have. Maybe you like things this way. But I do not. I did apologize for it, but some "non phony" things hurt people so deeply, there's really no going back. I think being a little circumspect is probably better- especially when you can't be sure how stable the person you are writing to is, or how deeply the insults cut. (And I am not implying you are unstable; I was picking up on your point about people being crazy- and this giving you license to call them names. If they really are crazy, that's even more reason not to torment them. It's generally not considered socially responsible to torment people who are over the edge. That doesn't mean you have to put up with them; you can ignore them, but tormenting them seems problematic)