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To: Ilaine who wrote (39241)	6/5/1999 4:12:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

We aren't cruel- and Lather didn't say it, Shakespeare did. Famous quotes are just that, famous quotes. I don't think Lather was trying to convert people- I think he was just sharing some quotes. I think that is the reasonable interpretation. If I posted quotes from "A Modest Proposal" about the eating of Irish babies (and I happen to find that essay hilarious) I am not necessarily advocating its views- anymore than Shakespeare was advocating the killing of lawyers (of course after reading Dickens Bleak House you can kind of understand why the English might want to kill a few lawyers). I do not think many of us here are cruel. I certainly know that I am not, in general cruel myself- I cannot speak for certain of anyone else, but I hazard a guess that very few of us are really cruel. What I say, what I said, was I think reasonable. It is not cruel of me to think that you are acting unreasonably. I agree with you most of the time. I have said that. I like you most of the time- I didn't say that before, but you know its true. If my husband calls me a bitch, and I get offended- to some extent it is my fault- I should be secure enough to know I AM NOT A BITCH- that's a female dog and I am, for one thing, much bigger than any damn dog, and meaner too. But the word bitch is aimed to offend. It is an epithet. Quotes by famous people are not aimed to offend. If anything they were meant to entertain- clearly they missed the mark for you, but that does not make them offensive per se does it? Do you think a reasonable person could have foreseen those would offend you? I admit I had no idea you were this sensitive about quotes regarding lawyers.