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alanswhore -> RE: are we all "equal"? (7/1/2009 8:33:59 PM)
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ORIGINAL: RedMagic1
I'll try one more time, but BSB is right (as usual), so this will be my last post on the thread.
The thread is about whether people are equals. You might claim, "People are equal," or, "We're not better than anyone else." However, if you make claims like, "I can tell in a moment if someone is in X profession," or, "My owner is a very good lawyer," you will sound as though you are arrogant and bragging. That attitude looks even worse if you treat others in a condescending way.
As usual, what people say is less important than how people act. It is, for example, a lawyer's trick to misquote me intentionally, as you did in an earlier post, or to say I was the one who kept bringing up your education, when if you read back, it was the two of you who did so. Such behavior comes across as disingenuous, not forthright.
I hope you see a benefit to behaving differently in the future.
....it's arrogant for me to compliment my owner? Seriously? When discussing your partners, do you generally tell people that they suck at what they do?
And strangely enough, my owner and I are individuals. Judging him by the fact that I used his profession as an example of something he is good at doesn't exactly seem reasonable. I could have chosen something else, yes, but given that I respect his privacy, I went with something that he had already mentioned in passing simply to explain his username. I'm still not at all clear how it is "elitist" to say that he is better at his job than people who do not have his job, but that does not mean those people are not his equals, which was what I actually said.
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