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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (30783)	2/13/1999 10:50:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<Well, E, now I think I am beginning to understand an essential difference in our feelings...." and <<I am NOT going to make this personal by making assumptions about you, but one aspect of the anti-death penalty crowd that had not occurred to me is that many of them may be wanting to fight having feelings like this,...>> combined with <<it makes more sense to me now that you ASSUME that I want revenge,>> and <<I am coming from a biological/species protection angle, which simply doesn't have revenge as an issue, >> In the above, Christine, what you have said is that have now understand that my side ("the anti death penalty crowd,") is informed by a thirst for revenge, feelings we are fighting, while your side is not, your side knows not the thirst for revenge, it is, rather, informed by a concern for protection of the species. True, you do congratulate us revenge-thirsty sublimators for our valiant efforts to transcend the dark impulses that to you are so foreign. I think, Christine, that it isn't so terrible to try to wax superior that when you are caught doing it, you must pretend it didn't happen. For example, you might have said, "I guess I was being a bit patronizing, E, and perhaps if I looked into my heart I, also, would find there some hate against the brutes of the world, evildoers who threaten my children's safety...." There are many things you might have said other than that your post was complimentary. The thing is, I can read. As I see it, Christine, I have attempted to point out inconsistencies in your positions and inaccuracy in your characterization of your own messages. You have been offended, though my aim has not been to offend. I have been thoroughly frustrated by this exchange, and regret having participated in it, as I am sure you do, too.