From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 18:31:23 MST
> I would hope that most list members find much more productive things to
> discuss than various forms of insults.
(1) Humor is important, and ridicule can be an effective communication
technique, especially in a medium such as this, where the person with
whom you are directly responding is not the audience of your speech.
(2) Probably the majority of what people find "offensive" was not
intended to be by the speaker, merely misinterpreted as such by the
listener. People /are/ often offended by simple honesty.
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