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Originally Posted by Undertoad
I have a certain amount of empathy for that
Right, now let's see. I'm unemployed, and face an increasingly threatening financial situation. But I'm healthy, generally optimistic, and have an education, so I will likely recover and bounce back well. If I lose the house I will still be able to afford an apartment with Jacquelita, although I may have to give up my dog.
I rate a mere 3 on the victimization scale. You can, therefore, be mean to me. If I want you to be nicer to me, I should emphasize the negatives and major concerns in my life.
Spode, what I have said to you here is downright mean. But that's OK; you rate a 3 also.
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If you feel that I'm somehow minimizing your situation, I apologize. I'm afraid I wasn't aware of it. This is probably because you do not go on about it. I have empathy for *you*, too. However, I'm not sure where I was being mean...or were you referring to Mari?
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I know that some of us question whether or not Mari even *was* the victim of CO poisoning.
She knew a lot of intricate details about what that might entail. For example, she complained about not getting expensive hyperbaric treatment. In-between puffs on a cigarette.
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I did say that I sometimes doubted either the fact or extent of her poisoning, based on what appeared, on screen, to be a fairly unimpaired writing style. As to bad judgement in her choice to smoke given her condition, I'm eating Taco Bell right now, and I've had a bypass. So Mari and I are equally culpable, or so it would seem by extension.
Again, I agree that Mari's ban became the only reasonable solution, but I don't think the situation was as simple as "Mari's a twit". I'm not sure why you are taking my (what I see as rather mild) expressions of opinion so very personally, but I apologize profusely for any slight, actual or perceived. I think you're a pretty special guy, UT, and definitely not someone who I would offend intentionally or unintentionally.
And with that, I bow out of any further Mari discussions, discretion being the better part of valor.