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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
Taking something literally instead of metaphorically?
When someone says, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" does that literally mean one could eat an entire horse or that one is so hungry that one could eat a large amount?
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Doesn't matter whether you take it literally or metaphorically. Instantly disliking, hating, or even thinking violent thoughts against someone else simply because they own or use a particular type of technology is just wrong.
If they use it in a manner that is rude (like the idiots who take cell phone calls in the theater and then sit there talking away at the top of their lungs), then fine, there's a person I could learn to dislike. But, thinking ill of someone only because they choose to read an ebook? Just sitting there quietly reading and enjoying their book, and this bozo decides that he doesn't like that person? Nevermind actually hitting them, just wanting to hit them solely for reading on an ebook device? Simply thinking less of the person because of the manner in which they get their reading content?
Sorry, I just can't wrap my head around that one. It makes about as much sense to me as hating someone (instantly) because of the color of their skin, or who they love, or what country they come from. It's simply and utterly stupid. How would he feel, I wonder, if I said that his looking like a Native American just made me want to hit him? Even if I had no intention of really hitting him, I think it would be an unforgivable thing to say.
Oh, and no, it wouldn't matter whether it was a man or a woman who was the target of that sort of thinking. It's the type of thinking that screws people up, and I don't care to read the writings of someone quite that screwed up in his thinking.