I was just thinking about something now. When I was living in Denver, I had a buddy that I used to talk to a lot about doing nefarious things to people we didn't like.

He used to tell me about friends he learned from who grewup under the philosophy of "don't get mad, get even". My buddy used to tell me all kinds of stories of things his friends did in situations to people they didn't agree with.

Not once, not ever, did a "get even" scenario result in permanent damage to someone. The scenarios typically resulted in the person who wanted to get even, having a laugh over something for a day or 2. And the other person being upset for a day or 2. But that was it.

I can't imagine the morals of someone who is willing to do permanent damage of a job loss to someone else over the matter of a personal disagreement.


>I feel I should start this with, "Perry, we've had a few disagreements in the past," but that seems to be what everyone is saying to me. Don't want to overuse it. Am I really that cantankerous? Oh well, maybe time again for some self evaluation...
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>I had those same thoughts. So utterly full of anger. I can only imagine what demons are hiding in that mind.
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>>Besides the disbelief that something could go as far as this incident has, I'm even more amazed after reading the letter that Peter has linked to.
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>>What kind of person has that much vindictiveness in them that they a) bother to write this kind of letter, b) spend a significant amount of time they obviously spent to compile the data for the letter?
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>>At a minimum, I'm very glad I use a company name here that I started with a friend of mine a number of yrs ago, and have since ended. I have no intention of changing the name to reflect my actual wereabouts.
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>>>Jay, we've had a few disagreements in the past ;-) but I don't think you are at fault here.
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>>>IMHO it is *highly* significant that people clicked to what you were talking about, despite the initial vagueness of your scenario.
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>>>You did not cause that widespread recognition; IMHO it is something to think about for the participants in this sorry tale.
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>>>FWIW, now that I've seen the letters I find myself shaking my head in disbelief, and wondering whether normal UT users need to create new "Renoir" UT ids in case one of our esteemed leaders decides to finish us too.