Schneibster wrote:apophenia wrote:Schneibster wrote:apophenia wrote:No offense, Schneibster, but the high road is called the high road for a reason. Just sayin'.
If you take it all the time they start thinkin' yer soft.
Perhaps the fault is in you, and not the road. I am constitutionally unfit for taking anything
but the high road and I rather doubt anyone has ever thought me soft for doing so. Indeed, the high road is far from soft, for when you take it, not only are your claims punishing, they're punishing
and true. That's a weapon the low road doesn't afford you.
We have very different ideas of what the "high road" and "low road" are. The "low road" for me doesn't include dishonesty; that I will not stoop to
You not only "stoop" to it, you get down on your face and crawl in the mire of dishonesty.
and I resent the implication I have and demand evidence or a retraction.
Demand away, for all the good it will do you.
I will freely admit to being a dick, but I did not ever lie that I am aware of
Pathology does not excuse wrongful behavior.
, and on one occasion when I did accidentally through misunderstanding a third party's article, I admitted it and retracted it as soon as someone made it clear.
Nor do insincere apologies and self-rationalizations excuse wrongful behavior.
One has nothing on the Internet but one's honesty. Words are all we are here. I do not waste them.
You are what you write, that's true. As to "waste," I dispute that rationalization.
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