Role of a copy editor
I must thank you for not publishing everything that I wrote in my letter on our political leaders. The copy editor edited it and the abridged published version teaches me much in an appreciable manner. I have learned that I cannot express all my instinctive impulses in the civilised public domain. I conceive the idea that an editor sometimes has to maintain an optimum equilibrium among the multi-optional social and political dynamics. On the other hand, it also does not mean that copyediting has to constrain the reasonable degree of individual freedom in all aspects.
But we, the readers as well as contributors, may maintain a self-guideline on how far we can go.
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