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- From: Rick.Moen@f207.n914.z8.rbbs-net.ORG (Rick Moen)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Insults
- Message-ID: <722073998.1@wyrm.rbbs-net.ORG>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 03:11:02 GMT
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- > From: marlowe@paul.rutgers.edu (Thomas Marlowe)
- > Message-ID: <Nov.10.09.17.11.1992.21575@paul.rutgers.edu>
- >
- > In the thread 'Gender-Neutral Pronoun', there has been some discussion
- > about whether someone can insult you without intending to insult you
- > in particular.
- >
- > I would maintain, yes, they can, in the same way that a gunman atop a
- > water tower can shoot into a crowd, not intending to kill any known
- > individual in particular, and still commit murder. In fact, if a
- > bomber sets off a bomb, not knowing for certain whether there will
- > even be people present, but people die, it can still be murder.
- > ...
-
- I think the best solution is the only one that will absolutely,
- positively keep the bulk of this blithering out of newsgroups:
- universal insensitivity -- a truly liberating idea whose time has
- come.
-
- As long as proclaiming one's self "insulted" is an effective way to get
- attention, people who see themselves as power-deprived will continue
- to seek the eradication of "insults" as an alternative to substantive
- improvement of their condition. Hypersensitive noisemaking, however
- emotionally satisfying to some, is a poor substitute for progress.
-
- Cheers,
- Rick M.
-
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