Website owner: James Miller
There is a policy I have followed since early youth. I never call people names. No matter how much I dislike someone or how angry he might make me I will never call him a name. In fact there are a great many derogatory adjectives that people sometimes use to put down their fellow man that are just not in my vocabulary. I have never used the words in my life and never will use them. In general, I seldom talk disparagingly about people, but if I do, I do so in very simple words and am very careful that what I say is accurate and true. I never use colorful, emotion-charged, slanted words to do it. How did these policies that I have long followed arise? They came out of the thinking of my early youth. Reflection told me that these things were not right and I determined that I would not do them. I know that my feelings on the subject were influenced by my own struggle in life and I realized that it is easy to misjudge people and situations. It is easy to be unfair and unjust in our superficial knowledge and in our impetuousness. Jan 1987
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