you can justify being an asshole a hundred different ways... but justification is only needed if you don't want the reputation of being an asshole.... but that's not the case... there is a certain amount of pride about cc.com attitude.. so why try and justify it?
just admit the facts.. "we're assholes" or "yah, some of us are assholes"
and then let the thread die... we could do hypotheticals till the end of time...
one thing though.. when people respect you, they follow you, so it's important to know how to lead... leadership is not a quality that assholes have
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