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<blockquote data-quote="moritheil" data-source="post: 4056362" data-attributes="member: 30610">On a practical level, will agree that Umbran's assertion is quite understandable.&nbsp; That said, I do feel obliged to respond to a post that has not gotten the details of my earlier statements correct.Not quite.&nbsp; My assertion was that both result from the same sentiment, expressed in different cultural contexts and with different (perhaps radically different, in your example) degrees of social skill.&nbsp; Read Penny Arcade and you will see how casual trading of insults is normative in some gamer sub-cultures.My post was about incompetence, not ignorance.&nbsp; You are ascribing to me things that I am not suggesting.&nbsp; From the start my purpose has never been to question cases where people could help themselves, only cases where people could not help themselves - whether because they failed to realize that certain extreme behaviors are not equally acceptable in all places, or because they lack the ability to express themselves in a cleaner fashion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moritheil, post: 4056362, member: 30610"] On a practical level, will agree that Umbran's assertion is quite understandable. That said, I do feel obliged to respond to a post that has not gotten the details of my earlier statements correct. Not quite. My assertion was that both result from the same sentiment, expressed in different cultural contexts and with different (perhaps radically different, in your example) degrees of social skill. Read Penny Arcade and you will see how casual trading of insults is normative in some gamer sub-cultures. My post was about incompetence, not ignorance. You are ascribing to me things that I am not suggesting. From the start my purpose has never been to question cases where people could help themselves, only cases where people could not help themselves - whether because they failed to realize that certain extreme behaviors are not equally acceptable in all places, or because they lack the ability to express themselves in a cleaner fashion. [/QUOTE]

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