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I am just a lurker on the edges, and have no desire to get involved in any sort of a blog war, and although I have at time thought the tone of some of your post a bit confrontational. I think the work you have done with the Examiner is outstanding. It seems to have gotten traction, and demonstrated the real broad base opposition to gun control in America.
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Joe, thank you. Getting my share of unkind words, I appreciate the kind ones.
ReplyDeleteI have no desire for any kind of war either--which is why I believe the best defense we have is making those who would attack us uncertain of what would happen if they did.
So when you detect me being confrontational, please understand it is deliberate.
Joe, I would mention that confrontation is initiated by the agressor. When someone, or everyone would disabuse one of his rights, they are the ones being confrontational.
ReplyDeleteWhen the threatened one responds with warnings of consequences should the aggressors continue their aggression, he is not being confrontational. Rather, he is the only one trying to defuse the situation and keep the already initiated confrontation from reaching its ultimate eruption into a confrontation of horrific physical consequences.
In that respect David is anything but confrontational. He is far more patient and peaceful than I. I am out of patience.
In my life I have come upon many occassions when I realized that nothing was going to persuade another or several others to leave me alone. Not words, not reason, not a stated desire for a peaceable solution.
When I have reached that understanding within myself, I have struck. I will again under the same circumstances. I will not pay for peace at the expense of my honor or survival.
Now, I am not saying that David is different from me in that respect, what I am saying is he has far more hope that the warnings will heeded than do I.
Ask yourself this, would you say a woman in her home who was attacked by a naked man with an erection who had broken down her door, was being confrontational when she shot his ass graveyard dead? Would you? Or would you think the confrontation had its genesis in the actions of the would be rapist?
Depending upon how you answer those two questions defines the issue for you. We are, as citizens being raped daily unless we somehow utilize the means of resistance. Warning that tumescent man outside the door that you will kill him if he comes in is not being confrontational. It is being responsible. Especially if you mean it and do it should he not heed the warning.
It ain't that hard to figure out, Joe.
Sorry David, I know you don't need my defense, but I am so tired of people not thinking beyond the surface and not understanding the definitions of the words they use.
ReplyDeleteI fully understand that your motives are good, and your methods deliberate. Communication for the purpose of persuasion is always a attempt to find a common ground that allows communication, that is at the same time a different ground that allows leverage on preconceived notion in the listener. There is no calculus that allows for a judgment of the correctness of the word choice of a writer in these manners. It is a question of what he is comfortable with using as a individual. And indeed we are trying to change the minds of a large group of people that may require a lot of different approaches.
ReplyDeleteYour words are frequently not the words that I would use, but it is clear to me that you are getting good work done.
Wrong! Words mean things.
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