BTW, I'd have been interested in your comments on authorial intent even if I hadn't have actually agreed with it.
I didn't get the impression you'd have gotten offended; you seem to have your head screwed on straighter than that. *g* But it wasn't really a road I felt like going down, especially in someone else's blog and entirely tangential to the main point of the original post. I usually try to keep from doing that unless it's a situation where discussion of the issue has specifically been invited by the OP. Keeps my (and everyone else's) blood pressure down, I'm sure! And, no, this isn't meant as a criticism of you or anyone else for doing that; it's just that I have been easily sidetracked by potentially inflammatory topics in the past and I am, slowly but surely, learning not to have a quick trigger-finger on the keyboard.
And yeah, I agree with you that most people are pretty reasonable most of the time; it's the flameworthy minority that spoil it for everyone. (Also, I suspect that even most reasonable people have an inner flamer lurking within, when something really pushes their buttons. Unfortunately those button topics are different for everyone, and nearly everything is guaranteed to tick off someone.)
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I didn't get the impression you'd have gotten offended; you seem to have your head screwed on straighter than that. *g* But it wasn't really a road I felt like going down, especially in someone else's blog and entirely tangential to the main point of the original post. I usually try to keep from doing that unless it's a situation where discussion of the issue has specifically been invited by the OP. Keeps my (and everyone else's) blood pressure down, I'm sure! And, no, this isn't meant as a criticism of you or anyone else for doing that; it's just that I have been easily sidetracked by potentially inflammatory topics in the past and I am, slowly but surely, learning not to have a quick trigger-finger on the keyboard.
And yeah, I agree with you that most people are pretty reasonable most of the time; it's the flameworthy minority that spoil it for everyone. (Also, I suspect that even most reasonable people have an inner flamer lurking within, when something really pushes their buttons. Unfortunately those button topics are different for everyone, and nearly everything is guaranteed to tick off someone.)