The Logic Off Topic list

Hmmm. We seem to have had a cross over of emails here. Never mind. Just 
makes life interesting.

Dennis Gunn wrote:

>Your comments
>about average Americans are often very directly offensive.  For
>example:
>
>At 5:13 AM -0700 10/13/01, Kool Musick wrote:
> >Unfortunately, the kinds of Americans that most people run into are this
> >same way in their private lives also. They oscillate disturbingly between
> >stunned cows and mad cows with it being extremely difficult to tell which
> >of these two is preferable. Would that it was an easy choice to make
>
>And since I am pretty sure you knew that you were being insulting
No.
I did not know I was being insulting.
I thought that I was describing a perception that many people -- rightly or 
wrongly -- have about Americans when they have but little opportunity to 
get up close and personal with them. Which it is the way it is with most 
people. That is what I thought I was describing, and it is certainly what I 
was trying to do. I thought that it was apparent. Clearly, it was not and I 
apologise for that.

In any case, I would have thought it supremely obvious, which it apparently 
is not, that I was not describing my own personal opinions or perceptions 
of Americans. Fortunately for me, most of the Americans that I have 
personally met have been a bit more like you. Quite reasonable really. 
There have been a few of other kinds, but I have usually put that down to 
differences in human nature.


>you
>were actually able to figure out my cryptic instructions without me
>even specifying exactly where to put what.  They were not specific as
>a matter of fact I was thinking maybe you might think I meant for you
>to put it in the burrow where the rabbit comes out.
True. It is oh-so-easy to jump to conclusions sometimes.

> >Nothing I have said in this email was intended to be inflammatory
>
>Yeah right.  ;-)

Right indeed. Thank you for understanding it.


>It is worth noting that while chiding us Americans for broad brushing
>issues into black and white
????!!!!!!!!!!!!

>you do paint the activities of the
>government your family supported as pure white.
I was not aware of having painted any such government as white.
All I recall describing was that I was a small boy. And bullets flying past 
my nose. And saying that mostly what I can remember was livestock being 
killed in front of me just for fun ... and a couple of real human beings 
being shot in front of my eyes. And being PETRIFIED. I fail to understand 
how that is painting any government as white. I was just a little boy for 
crying out loud. I didn't understand anything about government policies. I 
just remember the blood of chickens. And humans. You try it some time.

>This may well be
>true
Absolutely no comment.

>but it would be unusual if it were.
Absolutely no comment.

>  Politics is generally more
>like having to figure out which of the two demons has shorter horns
>and getting into it is like diving into the sewer to help him.
Absolutely no comment.


>Having said that.  I am truly very sorry to hear about your
>circumstances and especially the loss of your father.
Sorry? Over demons with short horns who dive in sewers?

>Yeah right.  ;-)

Kool Musick
Keep Musick Kool


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