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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (585331)	9/13/2010 3:55:38 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575775

Hey Ten. You are arguing with the dictionaries not me. If you want to select a particular heinously brutal level of persecution as the only definition you will except, it is fine with me. I was just trying to clarify how it is an umbrella term and you were simply wrong about 'the very definition,' but I haven't watered it down. It may be what is conjured up in your mind but there is a lot more to it. It is in fact not true that physical treatment/punishment even killing is always the most harmful. There are many things I would gladly die fighting against than to allow myself to submit to them. But if that is how you want to view the world, you are free to do so. I will just have to disagree.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (585331)	9/13/2010 4:13:29 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1575775

"That person will obviously get a bunch of stares, funny looks, and even some crass remarks or harassment." It depends. The person chooses to get a bunch of facial piercings for more than one reason but one of those reasons, a very big one is to provoke a particular reaction from others. They are being extreme and the natural reaction is to respond in the extreme. My natural response is one of sadness for the person, which is my natural right. I do not have the right to harass or attempt to humiliate them in public as a way to deal with my discomfort, anymore than I think a girl in a halter top deserves to be sexually harassed, even though I'd advise against halter tops if anyone asked my advise. Persecution of one type or another has always resulted in an effect which is opposite of the goal of the perpetrator. That is one way to judge the fruits of an act. Look how many teens started piercing when the adult community reacted with abhorrence over a relatively minor fad. Same thing happened with long hair on boys in the sixties. Now piercing seems to be waning in popularity as the publicity receives less outrage. What do you think happened last week as a result of all the Muslim bashing? A lot of people decided to read the Quran for themselves, even Christian Priests were reading it from the Church pulpit. Not the intended goal but all predictable. I can not understand why some people find that so hard to understand.