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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-09-07 09:34 AM
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8. Be careful, you may get a verbal kicking around that would
make cassandra blush.
People don't like to be asked uncomfortable questions-even edifying ones.

There is a currently popular saying to the effect of, "everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts."
On the surface, that appears to be true but, in fact, it isn't. An uninformed, willfully ignorant idiot, even one who lives on camera, is NOT entitled to an opinion and should be sued right into the ground for venturing one, unless backed up by facts and non-spurious reasoning.
Ill considered and ill informed opinions can cause enormous damage, especially when tendered by someone who has somehow attained center stage and people whom others pay attention to.

You can bet nobody will ask such a careful, thoughtful question as you propose.
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