Definitions WAS: Too much to swallow

[Guest guest]

wrote: " ... <snip> ... 1) Sometimes it is a tired arguement

that has been going on for years in which my view was assaulted and

hounded and hounded and assaulted, and despite my attempts and

eventual insistence that we let the topic go, here comes the member

with the axe freshly ground ... <snip> ... "

Mike responded: " ... <snip> ... " assaulted and hounded " -- those

words alone mean that you still have a lot of emotion attached to

those arguments ... <snip> ... "

I don't see it that way at all. An assault is an attempt or offer to

do violence to another and can be verbal as well as physical. An

attempt or offer does not require that the recipient of the assault

have any emotional attachment to the assault.

To hound someone is to pursue or harass someone without respite and

once again, this does not require that the subject of the hounding

have any emotional attachment to the hounding.

Ergo, one can be " assaulted and hounded " without having emotional

attachment to the act or acts visited upon the individual.

Raven