Reply #121: Hardly, Sir [View All]

[The Magistrate]

Reading foolishness causes me no offense whatever. On occassion, it moves me to place my own view on the forum in opposition to it. Why you express yourself, Sir, as offended by forthright disagreement with the opinions you express, and impute that feeling to others, is a question you will have to answer for yourself, but it must cause a good deal of stress you probably could do without.

On one decidedly trivial matter you seem to feel you will gain some benefit by recurring to, why you should feel it incumbent on me to privilege your personal style above my own is quite beyond me. If you are looking to be insulted, which it does seem that you are, you will find occassion to take insult regardless of how you are addressed: mollifying the thin-skinned is a mug's game, Sir.

"It is wrong to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."