On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:31 PM, John Williams wrote: >> Principle of reciprocity, since you've asserted the same about >> others. > > I'm not sure I followed that. Does that mean that because I implied > that > other people seemed to believe that I was not entitled to an > opinion, that > you assumed that I believed that you are not entitled to an opinion?
It entered my mind as a possibility, because people do sometimes hold the beliefs they accuse others of holding, and the strategies you've followed in the past suggest that you might genuinely believe that the right to hold an opinion or belief was mutually exclusive in exactly that way. (I focused on that because it's a fairly common fallacy of perception I've encountered in others, and has certain cultural connections that are rather intriguing for sociological reasons, mostly completely unrelated to this discussion.) If you don't in fact believe that, then while we still disagree, at least we can agree to disagree. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
