Here's another message from my Anonymous friend...
     Again I reiterate that I may agree with what this person has to say,
and I may not with some points, but this message has _not_ been edited
(In honor to my Journalistic background)...  ^_^

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To h-k:
<I don't believe that's the definition of hypocritical.  Anyway, I'd
judge *any* of the characters being rude, it just happens that it's Ranma
under discussion.>

IMO here, but I think that he's just typing to get people off his back,
and not really gonna be behind his statement. Of course, I am getting
paranoid.

<If you're someone's property, you're their slave.  However, if they just
treat you like trash, that means they simply hate you. <shrug>>

Sometimes people get treated like trash through accident, or because the
person doesn't know better. Konatsu was treated like property and like
trash. He was treated like a slave and was hated by his step mother and
(step?) sisters.

<Read the Battle Dougi story.>

Never answered the question.

<He deserves it, though, so I don't really think it's a bad thing that
she's doing.>

Again not providing an answer. Just throwing out an opinion to back his
point.

<:P>

See! :)

<Yeah, shit does happen.  But just because everyone's doing it doesn't
make it any less rude, you know.>

Also doesn't mean that since one person is challenging the status quo,
he's automatically right.

<On this ML, or in real life?  In both cases, the answer is 'yes.' :P 
(More like when I say something obnoxious or extremely annoying.  The day
before school got out for the holidays, I got a death threat from a
schmuck I know who doesn't like me a whole lot.  Ain't life grand? ;P)  >

I get the feeling that it his fault! :P

<Mousse apparently just wanted something as the stakes for the battle,
and since Shampoo was off-limits from Cologne's say-so, he just picked
Akane instead.  But that's not the issue, nor the problem - the problem
is that Ranma agreed to it, thinking that she was his to give away.>

Convenient how his mind remembers the situation isn't it? :P

<No, he didn't; he made faces at her while hanging on the rope.  It was
Cologne who cut them both down.>

As I see it; Both saw Akane dangling from the tree, and their reaction to
that was 'He can't have her!' and at that incident, Ryoga wasn't exactly
leaping to get Ranma away from her and keep Akane from hitting the
ground.  Ryoga was still standing there, and was calmly waiting for Ranma
to fly to him.

<At that point, I'd say he had a rather one-track mind; it's doubtful
that he even noticed that she was there...>

And if it was Ranma, it would be 'he doesn't care', 'he thinks that she's
his to hurt and allow hurt to come to!'

-----i am... ... ..."hiroshin"-ken  (hiroshin-ken@juno.com)