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Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> As far as not caring about how others feel, I've lost count of how
> many times I've seen someone take offense at a comment that I read as
someone's
> attempt to be helpful, or wondered whether someone's reply to
> something I said was meant to offend me.
Commenting that something contained more heat than light, rejoicing
about the final arrival of reason, rolling one's eyes are not innocuous
comments that are misread, and calling an opinion "idiotic" or "rubbish"
are other signals that someone needs a hug, as one poster brilliantly
put it.
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