On 04/17/2014 10:16 AM, auxsvr@gmail.com wrote:
Slanderous statements are by definition attacks against a person by denigrating his inherent qualities, one of which is his health.
There are two flaws in that assertion. First it assumes that health is an inherent quality. Its not. Sometimes people can be ill, sometimes well. Sometimes they can be 'walking wounded'. Second, telling someone they are ill regardless of how they feel is not slanderous. If it was then doctors would not be able to tell of diagnoses. For example, an x-ray may show up a previously unsuspected condition, cancer or TB, for example.
Also, this quotation was not presented in this mailing list by the one who said it, it was presented here by Anton Aylward, who apparently agrees with it.
Can you detail the basis for that assertion? Please, don't confuse me with James while doing so. The fact that I'm not denying it vociferously doesn't mean I agree with it. The fact that I think illness is sometimes an opinion doesn't mean I agree with it. The fact that I'm, by training and education, an engineer, doesn't mean I think religious belief is an mental illness.
Are you implying that one cannot be offensive or slanderous if he quotes someone else's words?
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