Ok, after reading this entire thread, I felt the need to respond.
Jag: Hey, if you feel that business is immoral, then that's how you feel...end of story. Don't let others cheapen your point of view about things.
Maggie: Well, you certainly have much to say to this young man, I see. You spoke several times in this thread about being understood, and how Jag's mispellings and errors made "your head hurt". Why is that? You mean to tell me that you aren't "intelligent" enough to read past the mistakes to grasp the meaning of his message (after all, that's how you came across...at least, to ME), or is it that you
REALLY can't be bothered to make the effort? If it is to the be latter, then how in the
HELL can you expect for anyone to give a good goddamn about anything
YOU have to say? It's fine and dandy that you can use big words and put them into even bigger sentences, but in the grand scheme of things, who gives a damn really? Are
YOU being "understood" as you
THINK you are? Many people see those who appear to be "learned" as pretentious assholes instead of one who has an actual grasp of the English language.
Quote:
(to Jag, from Maggie)"If you were in a position where you had to depend on
your own financial efforts to survive, I'd be more inclined
to let it pass when you prate about the selfish immorality
of being in business."
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I'll make this simple: If that is how Jag felt, then that is how he felt
REGARDLESS of his current situation, end of story.
Quote:
(By the way, I'm having trouble with the sentence you
wrote enumerating which necessities you're paying for
and which your parents are still providing for you by
*their* "immoral" efforts. Which of those commas is
supposed to separate those two categories? How were
your readers to know?)
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Easy answer: stop worrying about what the other readers think. Maybe they "got it". That sounded more like "nitpicking" at its worse.
Quote:
"We only know what you think by the evidence of what
you say."
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Mm...you make it a habit of speaking for others? *I* can speak for myself, thanks, as I'm sure every
INDIVIDUAL on this board is able to do as well.
Quote:
"Bluting out a proposition and then asserting that "it's
obvious" just won't cut it."
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*Laughing* That comment just struck me as completely absurd. Just because YOU feel that what he says "won't cut it" doesn't make it so. By the way, did you mean "blurting"?
In closing, age discrimination (or ANY type of discrimination) is wrong and the practice of it should be banned from human existance.
Well, it's been real, but I MUST move on. Keep the First Amendment true folks. Peace.