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Originally Posted by Terry
It stems from the deputy authority teaching and practice. The phase "offending the body" is utilized to somehow make a preferred opinion legitimate and to discredit or discount a contrasting point of view.
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The thing that is problematic as we talk about some of these kinds of issues is that it is sometimes difficult to keep straight what is the position of the writer v what is simply a presumed position of the LRC when the position given is clearly the latter but not certainly the former.
In other words, as I have been saying elsewhere, I have been noting that from almost all of our keyboards, including mine at times, I read things that are somehow defaulting back to LRC dogma that we don't always recognize. Since you essentially gave this particular one unlabeled, I could not tell whether you were simply giving the LRC position as a matter of fact, or stating that it is what you thought should stand as true.
And I commented back the way I did because I doubted you would agree with it. But there have been stranger things on this forum than you, me, or anyone else still holding to a position that we have not yet thought through. Since I was going to snip at the position, I needed to make it clear that it was not to be presumed as a snip at you, just at the position. A lurker would have no idea.