Randall Kennedy

Again, there is a place for euphemism.

Again, it all depends.

I'm not offended.

Let's imagine that you posted this and you had asterisks.

Instead of spelling it out, would I be offended?

No, I wouldn't be offended.

I would prefer the full spelling, but I would understand where you're coming from.

Would it offend me?

No, it wouldn't offend me.

I'm not sure.

Again, there's certain questions in which, there's certain questions you're not going to, we're not really going to know.

There's no sociologist who's going to be able to tell us that.

So what do we do then?

Then we go to...

secondary positions.

And my secondary position is, I don't know, one thing that I hold onto, however, very strongly is the virtue of openness, the virtue of transparency, the virtue of freedom.

And I feel as though

If I'm holding on to those things, if I'm trying to engage in a serious conversation in which I'm trying to make other people understand me and I'm listening carefully to other people, I feel at ease.

I feel at ease.

I feel this is going to eventuate in something positive and I feel okay.