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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Really, people ... am I the only person who bothers to fact check Harry's posts??
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Nope, plenty of posts where people question Harry's posts, and plenty of posts where Harry questions others'.
While I'm here though, might as well stick in a thought about the topic (this is the Conservatory after all
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I've always been struck by Mme de Staël's maxim "to know all is to forgive all" - to me that seems both profound and comforting
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The knee jerk reaction is "but what if your x was y'd by z" - and the honest answer is I don't know. I hope I could live up to that principle; and every x I know would hope so too (as I would if I was x). But if I failed to live up to the principle, that wouldn't invalidate it. (And it also doesn't mean, imho, that my forgiveness matters, or is even relevant, in most situations - any more than my condemnation.)