Just saying that different people will have different ideas about whether any given thing is an attack.
I'm pretty sure dxu wasn't talking about different people in general, but specifically meant that the one on the receiving end of the maybe-an-attack has the right to declare it an attack or not. See the following dxu's sentence.
And, of course, there is the obvious right of everyone to have her own opinion, but I'm reading dxu as saying that the opinion of the originator of the maybe-an-attack is... "less equal" than the opinion of the target.
likely upset some of the people it's done to
That's a rather weak claim. Most everything is likely to upset some people.
I'm pretty sure [...]
dxu, would you care to weigh in?
That's a rather weak claim.
The options I had, writing that sentence, were: obviously-too-strong claim; obviously-too-weak claim; absurdly fussily qualified and quantified claim. None of them was perfect, so I chose the one that looked least bad to me.
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