William, you're the guy who champions anything at all as "like" anything else, "anything at all as a "metaphore". For you now to declare that you can't tolerate the comparison of parlor or meeting-hall conflicts to "battlefields" feels dismayingly disingenuous.
In a message dated 1/16/13 6:22:34 PM, [email protected] writes: > As a longtime academic and administrator in a tier 1 research university, > where > real reputations are at stake for the merest of reasons, I know what > lecture > hall or conference room arguments are like and they cannot be equated with > actual foxhole or battlefield life and death terror, usually random, which > makes > it all the more fearful. It's hyperbole to compare any academic dispute > with > any real-world shooting battlefield. Period. > wc
