At 10:32 02-11-2002 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
I am not dismissing the work Giorgis put into studying the UN. What I am saying is that it sounds awfully arrogant when an amateur claims to have the One True Answer ("this *is* how <etcetera>" -- notice the emphasis on the word "is") and then add that the professionals "haven't figured it out yet".You're awfully dismissive of something someone's put a lot of time and energy into.
He could easily have avoided coming across as arrogant, simply by stating that *in his opinion* "this is how the UNSC will end up", rather than making it look as if he knows better than all those professionals.
There is one big difference here: Giorgis is not a professional, but implies that he is superior to the professionals. I am not a professional web designer, but you will never hear me imply that I am better at web design than the professionals.Would you like it if someone dismissed all the work you'd put into brin-l.com because you're not a professional web designer?
Jeroen "Architectus Websiticum" van Baardwijk
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