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SubjectRe: Humiliation
FromChris
Date2002-05-17 17:59 (2002-05-17 08:59)
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"Morgil Blackhope" <morestelx@hotmail.com>wrote in message news:<ac2leo$mgm5m$1@ID-81911.news.dfncis.de>...

Morgil Blackhope
Concider Bill Gates getting a cream pie in his face. Regardless of what he does or says, its still a humiliating incident.

I would disagree with that. Humiliation comes from the recipient.

Observers may say, 'Oh how humiliating' but what they are really thinking is, 'Wow, I would be humiliated if that had happened to me.'

I would say Bill Gates getting a cream pie in his face has the potential to be a humiliating incident, and most likely it would be - but if Bill Gates seriously did not feel humiliation at the event, it would not be a humiliating incident for him.

What makes a humiliating incident, people saying it or the person feeling humiliation ? I'd personally go with the latter.

Chris.

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