04-26-2011, 03:30 PM
"As a mother, I find it distasteful, even offensive, to be told that when I take any action on behalf of my child, it is out of self-interest. You made that blanket statement. You aren't a mother so you cannot know."
This hurts my character. It suggests I have acted to offend you. It suggests I have labeled you. It suggests that my love cannot equal yours.
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if this is the scenario, then the actual polarization that has occurred is STS. Arguing our own perspectives is self serving and we are both guilty of acting in STS fashion and it matters not what our intentions were, STS is the result.
We must now, in contemplation, reach a polarization of acceptance to balance our unacceptance of the other's point of view up to this point.
This hurts my character. It suggests I have acted to offend you. It suggests I have labeled you. It suggests that my love cannot equal yours.
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if this is the scenario, then the actual polarization that has occurred is STS. Arguing our own perspectives is self serving and we are both guilty of acting in STS fashion and it matters not what our intentions were, STS is the result.
We must now, in contemplation, reach a polarization of acceptance to balance our unacceptance of the other's point of view up to this point.