On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 08:48:22PM -0700, Jan Coffey wrote:

> Some people just have to do that man, they just can't help themselves,
> and you have to give it up when they are right, but they do have a
> tendency to keep pushing to the point that it becomes more about them
> being right and you being wrong than it is about their information
> being right and your's being wrong.

And some people just have to see everything as a game or a competition,
and to act like a victim because they perceive themselves as having
lost a game or been bullied.  They can't see that what is more
important is striving for correct knowledge and accurate transmission
thereof. Presumably they would prefer the Dark Ages?


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