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Will Deakin  
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 More options Sep 25 2002, 3:40 pm
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From: Will Deakin <anisotro...@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:39:48 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Wed, Sep 25 2002 3:39 pm
Subject: Re: The toxicity of trolls
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Tim wrote:
> I apologise for my part in this.  Very early on I did mistakenly think
> that he could be deconfused, but I am afraid to say that more recently
> I have been taking a certain evil pleasure in merely baiting him.
> This is both cruel - it's pretty much bullying - and a misuse of cll.

Mea culpa. I am guilty of this too[1]. On reflection, if this were to
happen to somebody like my two year-old son I would be very upset. Even
if he put himself in the way of it. Mocking[2] the afflicted is never
justified.

In my defence I should add that some of my -- albeit oblique -- comments
were intended to cause some form of reassement or adjustment of self but
to no avail.

I wish that in fact the whole sorry episode turns about to be an
enormously elaborate hoax.

(sigh)

Will

[1] Maybe this is an northern english thing -- or maybe I'm secretly
your alter ego ;)
[2] I think at the time I thought that I was merely mithering but given
the nature of


 
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