Wil Mireu said:
No, I'm merely a realist.
No, just brutish and tactless.
Wil Mireu said:
The world has lost a talent that it will never see again, and that is sad.
Coming from you, that means almost nothing.
Wil Mireu said:
and neither does tact. Seriously, if anyone is actually offended that somebody said that someone has died then they need to get out more.
It's your lack of netiquette that offends.
Wil Mireu said:
People can hide behind calling me "tactless" for saying this but I would say that they need to look past their "hurt feelings" to look at why they're hiding behind their own fears of death.
I'm not hiding. I am calling you out. J'accuse. Net troll.
Wil Mireu said:
People often explain death to a small child in those terms
And there are no youngsters here, on this family-rated forum?
Wil Mireu said:
People face death with whatever dignity that they are able to muster
If people are kind enough to give them the space to do so in private, you know, which is where people come in to fora like this and use the fuzzy phrases. The phrase fragment "has died" is still a shock, but nowhere near as much a shock as the sentence fragment "is DEAD" or "has DIED" )emphasis on the shouting, which if you've studied netiquette in this case carries almost a gloating to it).
Wil Mireu said:
fragile sensibilities. That's not right, IMO.
We are all now well aware of your opinion, and its worth on the stock market. And you don't endear yourself by casting the aspersion that everyone around you is some sort of fool for having fragile sensibilities, whatever on earth that means. Something out of a period novel?
Wil Mireu said:
To counter that Heinlein passage - sometimes people are so wrapped up in "honorifics" that they distract from and actually dilute the message they're trying to put across. Sometimes it's necessary to throw some sand in the machinery to make people realise that.
You know what happens to irritants.
Wil Mireu said:
Coming so late after your opening salvo, this hardly matters at all. Just words, used to, what, salve a guilty conscience?
Wil Mireu said:
It's a pity that the OP wasn't "brave" enough to say it as directly and honestly as that.
The use of quotes around the word "brave" here seals it. The penny dropped. You haven't the courage to outright call me a coward, so you slip the quotes around the word to somehow attempt to mitigate any backlash that you know is due from that challenge.
Then pay attention to this. No hiding behind quotes. Words as blunt as yours.
You are a troll.
Boorish, blunt, unfeeling, callous, the exact opposite of diplomatic. You don't seem to care so much for the content of the message, as in your urgent and driving need that your antidiplomatic approach should be proven right, and that your mighty wordplay should prevail.
I've met so many brutish, callous, vulgar men in real life that I can hear them in your little screeds. You don't care about Harry Harrsion's life, death or writings, because you are not a fan of his. You just jumped in to start shouting, calling everyone here a fool for mourning, telling everybody that our sensibilities are somehow more fragile because we aren't paying attention to you.
You ventured forth your opinion. Here is mine.
I do not care for your opinion.
Your opinion does not matter, because your unwavering attitude brooks no challenge. You are going to be proven right, no matter what. No matter how many people you have offended; how many people you have hurt.
No matter that
you don't care about the subject, and your only aim throughout this entire thread has been to hijack it so you are the man of the hour being talked about.
I have had it with you, and had it with your trolling. Get off this thread. You are barred from the wake. Out, troll.
I donated my copy to the local library because I could replace it on Kindle, relatively inexpensively. I wish I had known prior to donating it, although it may not have met your criteria -- it was an early version with the first three books (at that time, the only three books) in it.
