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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Some people feel that an idea, belief, community, etc represents them directly, so if you say that X is stupid they regard it as a personal attack.
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Yeah that's what I was thinking. I think it really depends on what exactly you're referring to as stupid, even if it's not directly related to the person you're talking to. If somebody exposes to you a very personal belief of theirs and you say that what they think is stupid, then it is like you're calling them stupid...because their thoughts are part of them...right?
I guess you know what I voted.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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