Quoting Glenn Glazer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

Cutting to the chase:

> 1) The slippery slope

No, no slippery slope.  Vexingly, I've just gotten through pointing that
out:  People of goodwill can distinguish the need of a friend to call
attention briefly to something vital from random people's desire to
babble continually about anything.

It is among the more common technogeek psychological fallacies to assert
that, because it's possible to have no sense, that nobody has it.
Sorry, I don't buy it.

> great tendency to produce disharmony

Possibly.  Not a sufficient reason to tell a pair of friends that he may
not call our community's attention to what he believes is a threat to
his marriage (again, not as an ongoing topic, but hearing tell of it so
that we're aware).

> No, he implies it.

Rubbish.  Reading in context, clearly he's saying it's something vital
-- as vital as it would be if it were _my_ marriage.  Or yours.
Moaning about gas prices and the stock market cannot compare.

-- 
Cheers,                                     Ceci n'est pas une pipe:   |
Rick Moen
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