From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Gene McAloon"  wrote in message
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> >I don't like religion. But then, I don't dislike it either. It doesn't
> >actually feel interesting to me at all. It's like homosexuality, or skin
> >color - so what? So this guy looks like this, or likes to do something I
> >don't like to do, or believes in something I don't believe - big deal. I
> >just would like to see people take other people's feelings into
> >consideration. Common courtesy and all that.
>
> Common courtesy is a nice thing in face to face encounters. In certain
> situations it might even save you from a fist in the mouth.  But in a
discussion
> group of this kind, if you are circumscribed in what you say because you
don't
> want to offend anyone's feelings, then the group loses much of its reason
for
> being.

Not for me.


> In my opinion, it should all be let out and hang personal feelings.

Yeppers, but then you *do* have the courtesy of making statements like that
start with "In my opinion". Changes a lot.


> I for one am more offended by people whining about being offended
> than I am about me being called as ass or whatever - assuming I am
> offended at all by being called an ass. It all depends on who is calling
me
> that. 

But you always have a hint of humour (in the form of irony mostly) in your
posts, even when you're just saying that everyone else is obviously wrong.
Makes a big difference.


Antti Kurenniemi

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