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• Monday, October 6, 2008 08:49 PM

  Jeeze

  Well, I hope I at least spelled Gandhi correctly (aside from the capitalization, I suppose) in my previous comment. I have to keep plugging it into The Google to make sure I placed the h in the right place. But, that doesn't mean that my fyslexic™ (Pedinska) fingers don't frustrate the best of my intentions.

  Kitt,

  I am sorry, but I don't get your complaint. That's okay. The world doesn't owe me an understanding of things. For me, the worry is a real one. I don't generally feel the need to "second" someone else's fears when they are coincident with my own. However, I did get the sense that you were suggesting to gandhi to kindly STFU on that possibility I won't further explicate. And, I responded with - I hope - an example of other respected writers worrying similarly. Gandhi isn't alone in his/her fears. And, expressing those fears in a place like this does not seem to make the probability of an heinous event any more, or any less likely.

  If my supposition is true, then I *really* don't understand your objection. It seems it would, then, fall into the category of I Just Don't Want To Hear It. I honestly don't have any reasonable way to respond to that. I seem to encounter things daily I don't want to hear, see, or read. The nice thing about the comments section of Glenn's blog, when I encounter stuff I don't want to read, is it's nicely addressed by the scroll wheel on my mouse.

  Now, you're welcome to the last word. I'm going back to Krugman's model on the global crisis (pdf):

  http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/finmult.pdf

  —bystander Read bystander's other letters
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