At 11:26 AM 9/21/2002 -0500 Robert Seeberger wrote: >> John, can you please make an effort to not be so obnoxious in the way you >> respond to people on this list. You are surely intelligent enough to be >able >> to make your points in a nicer way. Perhaps if you wrote in a way that >does >> not bludgeon your "opponents", you would have a much greater chance of >> infecting us with your memes. >> >I would add to Rays comments that the skill is called diplomacy. >It is very usefull when you desire a discussion that is less volatile than >the subject matter has potential for.
O.k. after writing one response to this early yesterday, sleeping on it, and waiting until this evening, I've toned down what I was going to say. Nevertheless, I would like to ask one serious question: Does the double-standard here apply just to me or to all conservatives/Republicans in general? I've thought a lot about this over the past two ideas, and I honestly can't decide. Let's review the course of events here: 1) A Brin-L poster accuses a certain individual of rallying a nation to war and ordering people to their deaths for political and personal economic gain. 2) The same Brin-L poster admits that they have not actually kept up on events regarding the said rallying of a nation to war. 3) Only *one* Brin-L poster bothered to object to this incredibly insulting and slanderous comment. This second poster did not attack the first poster, but simply asked if the first post ever felt guilty about casting such incredibly vicious insults when, by her own admission, without actually keeping up on the situation. 4) This second Brin-L poster then reserves twice as many criticisms for his post (2) than the original poster received for hers (1). Conclusion: If anyone ever wants another Brin-L poster to take their friendly advice and criticism towards that poster seriously, offer that advice/criticism in private, not on-list in front of that poster's friends and the entire community. Another good idea is to avoid the appearance of hypocrisy whenever dispensing advice/criticism to anybody, as that appearance can certainly alter the reception of that advice/criticism. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
