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I’m glad that Dee Cuthbert-Cope and Judith E. Smith found some glimmers of hope in my interview and essay. I regret that Julia Normand found only irritation. It’s evident from her letter that I’m not alone in offending her. She sees fit to lump me with other “people like Sanders” and to call me arrogant for saying that I find some human activities more promising than others. I don’t think it’s arrogant to make distinctions; I think it’s lazy to avoid making them. I feel more respect for a kindergarten teacher than for a race-car driver; I feel more encouraged by organic farming than by bungee jumping. If an activity is wasteful, selfish, or destructive, calling it your path does not make it any less wasteful, selfish, or destructive.