seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:

> In message <E1FNcMr-0007zS-00@smeg.dsg.stanford.edu>, Jonathan Stone writes:
>>Peter, what's got you so riled? Let me restore both what Garret said,
>>and the portoin of my repsonse which you snipped completley out of
>>context:
>
> What got me riled was someone's comment about "minimal emotional
> intelligence", which I found offensive, and the omission of any
> explanation of it, for the benefit of those of us (myself included)
> who lack this "minimal emotional intelligence".
>
> I didn't see anything wrong with your comment, and I just quoted the part
> that was quoted in the post I was responding to.
>
>>*In that context*, my reply to Garrett, below, was  mild and inoffensive:
>
> I think you're probably right, but I have no idea; I am not particularly clear
> on how people decide what is offensive.
>
> My complaint was that, rather than explaining why your comment was
> offensive, the person I was responding to asserted that people with minimal
> emotional intelligence would just magically know.  How are we supposed to
> learn this skill if no one will explain it?

Well, I didn't replied to you because you message made no sense to me.

Sorry.

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  Rui Paulo			<rpaulo@{NetBSD{,-PT}.org,fnop.net}>