From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 22:36:57 MDT
Ron writes
> mail@HarveyNewstrom.com writes:
> > Nice jab. But can you buy that the above description is a
> > far cry from being a communist, a terrorist, a Saddam supporter,
> > a bin Laden supporter, a traitor, or a person giving comfort
> to the enemy during wartime?
>
> Harvey, if you do enough damage to the country then all of that is a
> distinction without a difference. If you, alone or in concert, can weaken the ability
> to govern enough to cause unnecessary death and injury, what difference would
> it make which of those and many other alternatives you were? So that is not
> the question.
Hmm. I thought it was a good question (not that I want
an answer, just that it conveyed fairly what you probably
want to know).
> The question is how much do you hate and how much harm
> are you willing to do whether that harm is intentional
> or through indifference?
It takes careful reading to see that there is no
accusation here. People are still going to infer
that you are saying that they *do* hate, and that
they do a lot of harm. Since it's not been
established (to my knowledge) that Harvey hates
anyone, this is incendiary! Isn't there a milder
way to ask that?
> You seemed to accept my designating you a Bush hating
> Democrat so I accepted the term as accurate.
Hmm. I was about to write "Can't you see that this will
get a vigorous denial??", but hell, what do I know?
Lee
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