| | Halina, you raised two issues in this thread: privacy and truthfulness.
On the issue of privacy, I thank you for teaching me, that in grounding some of my arguments on SOLO, I made the mistake of disclosing information that you prefer to keep private. I have apologized for this mistake, and it won't happen again.
As for your mother, in view of her behavior I do not owe her the same curtesy. However, except where her disagreements with me are used to impugn my character, I will respect her privacy as a curtesy to you.
On the other issue, it is not in my character to lie.
It is not a lie to draw, from available information, an honest inference that later turns out to have been false. In the one case concerning you, it happened because I was being denied any direct communication with you - so that I could not verify my interpretation of what was published in the newspaper. I later learned that I did in fact misinterpret what I had read. It is also a fact that it was an honest misinterpretation, which I corrected when I found out that what I had posted was false. Puffing it up into a "lie" ought to be beneath you.
As for the rest, those are interpretations of a past about which your mother and I disagree. The least that you should expect of yourself is not to accuse either one of us of lying when our interpretations disagree - at least until you have examined all the evidence, and found, in independent evidence, a solid grounding for one interpretation or the other.
All I can promise now, is that I won't let it happen again if I can prevent it - and that I expect the same of you.
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