Re: Willow Palin's homophobic Facebook rant

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, Karl wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, nicholas a. evans wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Mike Findlay wrote:

>>>> Why on earth people seem so eager to take offense where none is 
>>>> intended is beyond me.
>>>
>>> Is it so strange to suggest that offence and intent to offend are two 
>>> separate issues?
>>
>> Not to mention it's kind of presumptuous to think that people can 
>> always know your own intentions.
>
> I suppose.  But I also think it presumptuous to say that people's 
> perception of my intent is more important than my actual intent.

I think it's presumptuous to say that your intentions ought to trump your 
actions, when it is the actions that people are responding to regardless 
of whatever the original intentions might have been.

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