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From: speaker@gymble.UUCP (Speaker to Animals)
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Subject: Re: Living Alone: Abnormal?
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Date: Mon, 2-Sep-85 12:57:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  2 12:57:49 1985
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In article <248@whuts.UUCP> amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill) writes:
>>>
>>> I have a better word: irresponsibility. For more closeness you get
>>> less irresponsibility. It gets confused with "freedom" very
>>> frequently. 
>> 
>> Well, I was in a pretty decent mood, but it ticked me off considerably.
>> Also the part about how living alone makes you self-indulgent and
>> intolerant.  
>
> [Andy Cohill]
> Oh, brother....I was stating a g*d-d*mned opinion. I did not hold a
> gun to anybody's head and claim you had to do things my way.
> For the feeble-minded: I think that if you are living alone,
> the possibility exists that you may become more intolerant of others;

That's not what you said; as evidenced by the above excerpt.  Please
state your opinions as such instead of making statements that sound so
absolute.  And what's this "For the feeble-minded" stuff?  That sounds
pretty intolerant to me as well.  Consider...

[Andy Cohill]
I have a better word: irresponsibility.  For more closeness you get
less irresponsibility. It gets confused with "freedom" very frequently.

This is a far cry from "I think that if" and "the possibility exists that
you may become."  If you don't qualify your statements then of course
you're going to get flamed since it sounds like you're setting yourself
up as the authority on all things.  It's especially irritating since
we all have experience to tell us that your opinion isn't true for
all of us.

> I am not claiming that living alone instantly makes you intolerant.
> However, from all the intolerant replies I recieved, I am beginning 
> to believe that is true.:-)
> 
>> It doesn't seem to me that *you* are being at all tolerant
>> of other people's chosen lifestyles.  
> 
> That is silly. I don't give a flying leap what you do with your
> life. There seems to be some sort of knee-jerk reaction here; if
> you post something at variance to the prevailing opinion, you get
> flamed instantly.

Oh really.... this is the patent excuse for EVERY disagreement and you
should know better.  "I got flamed because everyone else is against
me." Right.  You were flamed because you sounded as if you were trying
to set yourself up as the opinion and the truth on the subject.

If you didn't care about what others do with their lives then why are
you replying to peoples articles?  Your aren't related to Rich Rosen
are you?

> It's just a darn good thing that I can give as good as I get,
> or I'd be upset, hurt, and wishing that someone would give me a hug.
> :-)

The real test is whether or not you get as well as you give.