I was criticized for using the expression 'brain dead' in my Supreme Court article. A woman thought I was using this expression for joke value and took offense. However, I've never made fun of physically challenged people. I think that's a cruel, low rent thing to do. I used the expression sincerely because I feel that former attorneys who are in a political position to make rulings that affect the majority of people in the US, should have more common sense. Most of their recent rulings have not only been controversial in nature but go against the beliefs that were the foundation for the priciples this country was built on. When they rule that a country founded on the principles of religious freedom cannot pray in public, nor use the expression Under God because it's unconstitutional, then they are brain dead. When they demand that the Ten Commandments be removed from Federal buildings, then they are definitely afflicted. The part of their brains that control sensibility and righteousness are not functioning. This is my opinion and is not meant jokingly. Rather I'm serious. I feel that men and women who are younger and are more intune with the injustices contained in most of the rulings should be in charge. I'm sorry, but enough is enough.And now I'll get down off my soap box. But not before explaining that I suddenly find myself in the middle of a feud with an authoress who's had brain surgery and don't know how I got there. She took offense to my use of the expression 'brain dead' as though I was pointing a finger at her. I don't even know her. And no, I'm not using the expression jokingly. Sheesh
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Reviewed by S. Reisner (Reader)
Reviewed on October 10, 2005
I think people need to get over themselves and quit being SO DAMN SENSITIVE. It's kinda like the gal in a huge writers forum who wanted everyone to make a special note in the subject of any snippet posted for critique if a child died in it (just for her). Evidently she had lost a child. While we all agreed it was sad, we also agreed that just because one person was sensitive to that sort of thing, 6000+ people shouldn't have to change just for that one person so she could belong to the group.
My opinion is this - you are not responsible for someone else's sensitivity. If you were, you'd have to shut up and never speak again. Sensitive people need to get a life. Life is too short to take offense to everything.
Placing deformed parts of human anatomy in a functioning justice when there is no clinical default is indeed, joking. At best, it is high judgment on your part.
Brain dead people have seizures and all sorts of other ailments. Some on the other hand, rise to the call to educate about ridiculing Americans who like to use insensitive phrases.
Stephanie Sawyer
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My opinion is this - you are not responsible for someone else's sensitivity. If you were, you'd have to shut up and never speak again. Sensitive people need to get a life. Life is too short to take offense to everything.
Brain dead people have seizures and all sorts of other ailments. Some on the other hand, rise to the call to educate about ridiculing Americans who like to use insensitive phrases.
Stephanie Sawyer