As I see it, what you're asking for here is for people to have more respect for your emotional involvement with history.
Mine, and Amanda's too. Amanda posts, admitting that she's been wrong about something she's long believed and has as much of an emotional tie to as I do, then gets pounced on for not being wrong enough without any consideration for the fact that it's not just an itellectual, factual question for either of us.
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Date: 2005-05-26 01:41 am (UTC)Mine, and Amanda's too. Amanda posts, admitting that she's been wrong about something she's long believed and has as much of an emotional tie to as I do, then gets pounced on for not being wrong enough without any consideration for the fact that it's not just an itellectual, factual question for either of us.