Dear Eric,
Jan. 17th, 2002 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twicketfaceI’m writing this in response to the email that you sent me, explaining that you’ve been very mad at me for the past few days over the situation we have between us that occurred last Thursday (1/10/02). I feel that your ‘exchanging’ of a broken PlayStation to get a new one was wrong, while you feel that you’ve done nothing that should result in me disapproving of your actions.
The first email you responded to me stated that we both disagree and you were considering it point closed. You emailed me a few hours later to say that while I obviously have strong feelings over the matter, we both have different opinions on right and wrong. You then indicated that you wanted to put it in the past and not have it suffer our friendship. You also indicated that you hoped I could “forgive your sin”.
If you wanted us to ‘let bygones be bygones’, why are you dwelling on it? After I got the two above emails, I sent you three emails that didn’t mention our situation and avoided talking about it. Your response was either a one-sentence reply or simply no reply at all. I was more than willing to put it in the past, yet you sat and stewed about it instead of trying to talk to me about it (like when I came over the evening of our argument. I sat and watched television and visited with Brian while you read the paper and mostly ignored me).
You claim that all of the people you’ve talked to take your side. I’ve talked to people about it as well and they feel that I’m right. I don’t think we’re going to come to a consensus over what you did, which is fine.
I see what you did as nearly the same as when you did the DVD player exchange. I don’t think that was moral, right or legal and I’m sure if you talked to Best Buy and told them that you took back the DVD player you had for a year and then when it broke, you bought a new one and then took back the broken one ‘disguised’ as the new one to get your money back, they would feel the same way. I take issue with the fact that you didn’t inform Wal-Mart of the fact that the PS2 was over a year old when it malfunctioned and how much use it had prior to it breaking. It seems to me that you gave as little information as possible to get what you wanted and you are mad at me for seeing that as the wrong thing to do.
My intention was not to hurt your feelings, and I’m sorry that that they were. I just wanted you to think about what you did and see if you feel you did the right thing. If you do feel that way, and it seems that you do, that’s all I wanted in the first place. I was simply giving you other options to show you that you had other courses of action. If you never want to talk of this issue again, that’s fine. We both have our feelings on the matter and we both did what we feel is right in regards to it.
I also don’t appreciate your ultimatum for me to either apologize to you or have our friendship suffer. You are the one who asked for forgiveness, and now all of a sudden I’m the one who did something wrong?
I’m more than willing to put this behind us, but I have a feeling that you are incapable of this. I know you Eric, you are someone who takes things very personally and I believe, holds grudges against people. You have the opportunity to live your life the way you want to and so do I. I can overlook the fact that you do things I don’t agree with, but I’m not about to apologize for what I believe in.
The first email you responded to me stated that we both disagree and you were considering it point closed. You emailed me a few hours later to say that while I obviously have strong feelings over the matter, we both have different opinions on right and wrong. You then indicated that you wanted to put it in the past and not have it suffer our friendship. You also indicated that you hoped I could “forgive your sin”.
If you wanted us to ‘let bygones be bygones’, why are you dwelling on it? After I got the two above emails, I sent you three emails that didn’t mention our situation and avoided talking about it. Your response was either a one-sentence reply or simply no reply at all. I was more than willing to put it in the past, yet you sat and stewed about it instead of trying to talk to me about it (like when I came over the evening of our argument. I sat and watched television and visited with Brian while you read the paper and mostly ignored me).
You claim that all of the people you’ve talked to take your side. I’ve talked to people about it as well and they feel that I’m right. I don’t think we’re going to come to a consensus over what you did, which is fine.
I see what you did as nearly the same as when you did the DVD player exchange. I don’t think that was moral, right or legal and I’m sure if you talked to Best Buy and told them that you took back the DVD player you had for a year and then when it broke, you bought a new one and then took back the broken one ‘disguised’ as the new one to get your money back, they would feel the same way. I take issue with the fact that you didn’t inform Wal-Mart of the fact that the PS2 was over a year old when it malfunctioned and how much use it had prior to it breaking. It seems to me that you gave as little information as possible to get what you wanted and you are mad at me for seeing that as the wrong thing to do.
My intention was not to hurt your feelings, and I’m sorry that that they were. I just wanted you to think about what you did and see if you feel you did the right thing. If you do feel that way, and it seems that you do, that’s all I wanted in the first place. I was simply giving you other options to show you that you had other courses of action. If you never want to talk of this issue again, that’s fine. We both have our feelings on the matter and we both did what we feel is right in regards to it.
I also don’t appreciate your ultimatum for me to either apologize to you or have our friendship suffer. You are the one who asked for forgiveness, and now all of a sudden I’m the one who did something wrong?
I’m more than willing to put this behind us, but I have a feeling that you are incapable of this. I know you Eric, you are someone who takes things very personally and I believe, holds grudges against people. You have the opportunity to live your life the way you want to and so do I. I can overlook the fact that you do things I don’t agree with, but I’m not about to apologize for what I believe in.
