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Re:Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing... by MartinCron on Monday September 24, 2012 @05:13PM (#4567016)
That's like asking a rape victim to show her bruises publicly or you won't believe it

I get the parallel, but still, the rape analogy feels tasteless and out-of-scale. May I suggest "that's like asking someone what their password is to prove that it was stolen"

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Re:Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing... by tisme on Monday September 24, 2012 @05:22PM (#4567063)
You're 100% right, that was a bad call.

It was the best I could come up with on the spur of the moment but I should have thought about it a bit longer. The weirdness of the request is what angered me to the point of being careless with words.

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Re:Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing... by MartinCron on Monday September 24, 2012 @05:38PM (#4567141)
Hey, nobody is perfect with their spur-of-the-moment statements, especially when angry. Kudos to you for owning up to it.
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