Re: For Australia

On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:48:22 +0200, Jacob Andersen wrote:

I'm trying pretty hard to figure out what might have happened to justify
all this but I keep drawing a blank.
Anything that might warrant even 10% of your ludicrous behavior isn't
likely to leave you with enough restraint to "arrange" a fight.

Just to be really clear here. Bob hasn't raped anyone you know, or
beaten up your brother, right?

I'm betting some sort of verbal insult, possibly directed at family,
likely during a post-training beer drinking episode. I suspect that Bob
took offense where none (or minimal) offense was intended and that Peter
refused to offer an apology believing that Bob was unfairly requiring
disproportionate satisfaction on the issue. Thus both parties are likely
to believe themselves to be the aggrieved party. These sort of things
have a way of snow-balling. I further suspect that the original issue has
now morphed into a Male Dominance competition in which the original issue
is now merely a loci, focusing the hierarchical conflict; who can make who
"cry uncle" and be forced to "admit" that he was wrong and the other right.

*That* is the conflict now. Not the original perceived "wrong" but rather
the failure of either aggrieved party to *admit* to the wrong.

Mark my words.

Peace favor your sword (IH),
Kirk
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