03-09-2012, 08:21 PM
(03-09-2012, 08:12 PM)abridgetoofar Wrote: I guess you don't fully understand. This interaction itself is tiring so I won't go any further to explain myself after this.
You assumed that I had not personally contemplated, let alone had any personal experience with, the act of rape. Your statement that I was deluding myself by not "delving deeper," i.e. considering the extremity of rape, was an assumption, and extremely false assumption.
The fact that I'm choosing not to respond to things like this is not out of emotional dissonance, but because it is tiring and not beneficial to anyone to continue to reiterate the fact that your assumptions are false. The description of such words as condescending is not an emotional statement either, it is simply discerning the fact that you believe that you have contemplated something that I haven't and view it from a point of broader awareness.
I was not insulted by the fact you said I was deluding myself, I was insulted by the fact that you used rape specifically as an example of why I was deluding myself. I'll reiterate once more that you do not know what I have experienced or considered. Perhaps you weren't being deliberately insulting, but your assumptions on this specific topic were so wildly false, the topic innately holding such strong emotional charge, that insulted is how I felt.
So if you think I'm deluding myself, feel free to say so, but because you seem to have a knack for false assumptions, don't expect any sort of response, because I find it a waste of time to refute them.
Please Austin, this is not what I want to happen between us. And it is unnecessary. It is misunderstanding. Pleaser reconsider in the honor of love and brotherhood that I have not meant any insult.
It is not about any particular acts of brutality. Just because i chose those as examples, does not mean that I insinuate that you do or do not have experience with such. I wish with all me heart that you had not. As I wish with all my heart that no one should have to suffer those things.
I was not making any implications that you had any experience with any particular acts of brrutality, I just happend to use those as examples of acvts of darkness. I could have used any number of terrible offenses agaisnt humanity. that you took them so personally is regretful and I wish I could takje it back now that I know that you are so intimate about such things.
Can we not just drop it at this point and remain brothers here and just assume that a misunderstanding has taken place?
I have no need to make my point at the loss of a friend. What I had to say was said in the earlier posts and I stand by them. there is no reason for me to establish ill will to continue the discussion.