[OT] Benefit and belief

[Ethan Furman]

Ethan Furman wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote:
>> But whoever takes that joke and says it's deliberately hurtful is being
>> presumptuous and censorious and unreasonable. If they then castigate the
>> joker for supposedly hurting someone's feelings, it's at that point the
>> atmosphere turns hostile to discussion.
> 
> Um, wasn't it RantingRick who made this 'joke'?  Do you honestly believe 
> he /wasn't/ trying to be offensive?

Okay, that's what I get for skimming -- it was alex23, not rr.  My 
apologies, rr, for the misattribution.

~Ethan~