I too have been enjoying a simply huge number of private PMs which have placed me in the enviable position of being party to all kinds of views and opinions. Aren't I lucky? If you knew what was in them, by George, you'd be lucky too!

On a more serious note: empathy and compulsive sympathy are different critturs, although they are sorta like harmonics.

THat aside, I think the concept of a protected class hereabouts is a granfalloon, beyond just being more interested in people who communicate rather than those who dramatize every wee thought...


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