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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7571754" data-attributes="member: 6785785"><p>I don’t think that “I ride my bike to get from point A to B” has the implications you seem to think it does. I don’t think we should infer anything beyond the fact that this person chooses to ride a bike. It’s their personal preference. We don’t have enough information to know why they don’t opt for other methods. Not without asking.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, if you’re not puzzled by it, then you understood the intent, correct? If so, why disagree? Is it the label...the words chosen to express the idea...that you have a problem with? </p><p></p><p>And if so, then why not allow Max the same complaint regarding the label “Mother May I”?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ah perhaps offense is too strong a word. You seemed...bothered? annoyed? mildly perturbed?....enough by the terms used to start a new thread explaining in a very literal way a conparison that was made casually and metaphorically. </p><p></p><p>But plenty of other posters have also been looking for offense. I don’t think that Mother May I as it was used in the OP of the original thread was used in any kind of insulting manner. Nevertheless some have taken offense to it. I think that a big part of the problem in these conversations is that many folks are overly defensive of their playstyle, whether that style is openly criticized, or whether the criticism is perhaps only implied.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 7571754, member: 6785785"] I don’t think that “I ride my bike to get from point A to B” has the implications you seem to think it does. I don’t think we should infer anything beyond the fact that this person chooses to ride a bike. It’s their personal preference. We don’t have enough information to know why they don’t opt for other methods. Not without asking. Well, if you’re not puzzled by it, then you understood the intent, correct? If so, why disagree? Is it the label...the words chosen to express the idea...that you have a problem with? And if so, then why not allow Max the same complaint regarding the label “Mother May I”? Ah perhaps offense is too strong a word. You seemed...bothered? annoyed? mildly perturbed?....enough by the terms used to start a new thread explaining in a very literal way a conparison that was made casually and metaphorically. But plenty of other posters have also been looking for offense. I don’t think that Mother May I as it was used in the OP of the original thread was used in any kind of insulting manner. Nevertheless some have taken offense to it. I think that a big part of the problem in these conversations is that many folks are overly defensive of their playstyle, whether that style is openly criticized, or whether the criticism is perhaps only implied. [/QUOTE]
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