predcon: Me, ego? I didn't address you directly, nor did I quote you.
hedwards: No, but you did summarize what I was saying in a post immediately following one addressing me. Where I was the previous poster to that as well. And considering that I was the only person who posted in this thread anything at all remotely like that, it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that my ego has anything to do with it.
Regardless of whether or not it was me specifically to which you were responding, it's still pretty arrogant to interpret things in that fashion.
It's pretty damned arrogant to assume that a statement directed at a general audience is meant for one's self, regardless of similarity of content (content interpretation is subjective, and persons of paranoid frames of mind often look for "evidence" of aggression towards them, whether it's there or not) or chronological sequence. A lot of statements are made immediately after other statements, but that doesn't mean that one is a direct response to another.
