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I'm not entirely sure, but he may have taken exception to the following from your piece: >Of course, you and I know that the latter is just a general form of t

by joshes 14y ago

I'm not entirely sure, but he may have taken exception to the following from your piece: >Of course, you and I know that the latter is just a general form of the former, but somebody whose educational attainments have qualified them to sit behind a desk stamping passports doesn’t.

sliverstorm 14y ago
Yup, making it tortuously elegant doesn't somehow un-make it a put-down. Just because you have more formal education than someone, doesn't entitle you to look down on them.
- shiven 14y ago
  Just as you having less formal education but more authority in a given situation does not entitle you to behave like a dictator. Easy to be righteous when you are not the one who was wronged.
  - sliverstorm 14y ago
    I don't mock people's level of education, no matter how I have been wronged.
seldo 14y ago
...he took exception to something I wrote about him 2 days later? As I've mentioned in another reply, I was scrupulously polite at the time.
- Permit 14y ago
  Well it's a relief to know you only belittle people behind their backs.
  - shiven 14y ago
    ... as opposed to how you are compassionately honest and direct with people who can ruin your life-as-you-know-it based on which brand of bigotry pill they ingested that morning? (Clearly, this applies to many other aspects of life, not just international travel!) Sure, insulting people behind their back is unethical. So is the treatment OP was subjected to.
    - Permit 14y ago
      It's not hard to be honest with people when I don't look down on them because they're not as educated as I am... If an officer is being disrespectful and you dislike him, that's fine. If he's being disrespectful and you immediately think "Look at this idiot, if only he knew what kind of degrees I had" you've likely got a problem.
  - jacquesm 14y ago
    Action begets reaction. When someone is a jerk to you you tend to react to that. This may be irrational but that's the way most people work and it is perfectly natural.
    - Permit 14y ago
      Not everyone reacts that way, which suggests to me it's not "natural".

by joshes 14y ago

sliverstorm 14y ago

Yup, making it tortuously elegant doesn't somehow un-make it a put-down. Just because you have more formal education than someone, doesn't entitle you to look down on them.

shiven 14y ago
Just as you having less formal education but more authority in a given situation does not entitle you to behave like a dictator. Easy to be righteous when you are not the one who was wronged.
- sliverstorm 14y ago
  I don't mock people's level of education, no matter how I have been wronged.

seldo 14y ago

...he took exception to something I wrote about him 2 days later? As I've mentioned in another reply, I was scrupulously polite at the time.

Permit 14y ago
Well it's a relief to know you only belittle people behind their backs.
- shiven 14y ago
  ... as opposed to how you are compassionately honest and direct with people who can ruin your life-as-you-know-it based on which brand of bigotry pill they ingested that morning? (Clearly, this applies to many other aspects of life, not just international travel!) Sure, insulting people behind their back is unethical. So is the treatment OP was subjected to.
  - Permit 14y ago
    It's not hard to be honest with people when I don't look down on them because they're not as educated as I am... If an officer is being disrespectful and you dislike him, that's fine. If he's being disrespectful and you immediately think "Look at this idiot, if only he knew what kind of degrees I had" you've likely got a problem.
- jacquesm 14y ago
  Action begets reaction. When someone is a jerk to you you tend to react to that. This may be irrational but that's the way most people work and it is perfectly natural.
  - Permit 14y ago
    Not everyone reacts that way, which suggests to me it's not "natural".