Protest the Context

In a rambling reply -- where context(s) seemed to run over, under, around and through -- Snowwafer, who complains about people taking things out of context, had written, among a lot of other things:

>Having people be on the front lines doesn't do any good, if the people standing safely in the background won't make sure the front line is legally defended. >

Curmudgeon replied

>>Did Snowwafer intend this as a generally meaningless generalization? If not, and he actually mean it to describe some particular "people," then who does he mean by the "people on the front lines," and "the people standing safely in the background"?