[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Growltigger:
A defence of saying "Hey, we are mainly Americans so therefore we only mean America is a bit egocentrical" in my opinion, unless this thread is only meant to be for Americans and the rest of us dont have an invite.

On the contrary, I would never hold such an uncooth and jingoistic opinion. One of the values of this forum is that it exposes us to varying opinons and cultures. I totally respect all the differing points of view here and invite all to participate. I am merely of the opinon that trying to be overly careful about every single word doesn't really help the flow of ideas all that much. Perhaps in areas where it is reasonable that someone could misunderstand. But since he specifically mentioned the cases he takes offense at, i.e. the recent slew of big ticket product liability class action lawsuits, I don't think your case for taking offense is all that strong. I don't think a reasonable person would think Atrocities is in any way besmirtching the reputation of your esteemed collegue in Bangladesh drawing up real estate contracts. He's doing a bang up job, we are all sure.

Besides, "How low will the contentious private US lawyers go?" as a thread topic may be more precise and a tad less offensive, but it doesn't exactly roll off the tounge, wot?