Writing is hard, writing what you mean without any possibility of misinterpretation is even harder

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124. I think there's a lot of truth

to the saying, "We don't see things the way they are, we see them as we are".

You can try till your face turns blue to try and word something so nobody will take it the wrong way, but it just will never happen.

Someone, somewhere, is going to be upset or offended.

Sometimes I think it's because the offended person has some sort of personal stake in believing the worst, and isn't likely to change his or her mind no matter how hard the writer tries to explain.

Sometimes a person will disagree with an idea but is unable or unwilling (too lazy?) to explain why, so the person will zone in on a word as a way to refute the entire argument.

Then there are the really sad cases...inability or unwillingness to debate a point, so they pick on a person's grammar and/or spelling. In public, hoping to shame someone, but really they're only making themselves look like damned fools.