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Apologies, for some reason the body of my previous letter was not published, only the subject heading and my signature. Strange, and I have no idea how to fix it, so I'll just attempt to post the same letter again. Here goes...
We practice physical excercise daily to stay in shape, but clearly not everyone remembers to practice the emotional excercises of tolerance, curiousity about others, patience, empathy, grace, humour, or common decency. I wonder which kind of sloth, physical or emotional, is more damaging to us.
I almost didn't write this letter, because it talks about reader reaction to the piece, rather than the piece itself, but after witnessing the level of intolerance spewed out by Salon readers, readers who I thought were above this kind of thing, I had to say something. To not speak up would have been akin to clamming up when your buddy tells a racist joke. Cowardice is just as ugly as intolerance. I had to say something, or else I'm just as guilty.
