In rec.aviation.student Mxsmanic wrote:
Michael Ash writes:

It is rather strange to put "idiot" in quotes when the entire point of the
story was that this guy was, on that particular night, really, really
stupid.

I was being charitable; I guess charity is too rarely seen on USENET to be
recognizable.

Maybe you thought you were being charitable, but you weren't. When an
article's entire purpose is for the author to explain an incident in which
ha was stupid in the hopes that others can learn from his mistakes, using
scare quotes to imply that maybe he wasn't actually stupid at all is not
being charitable.

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Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software