Evan Prodromou wrote: >>>>>> "AS" == Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AS> Sure, and that's best accomplished by everybody not being a > AS> wuss. > > It doesn't make you a wuss to be respectful to others. Quite the > contrary: the strong know their own strength and don't need to flex > their muscles all the time. > > AS> Your proposed scenario is "We work together better but we > AS> can't get anything done because we can't talk to each other > AS> for fear of offending somebody". > > Being respectful doesn't mean mincing words or being > ineffectual. People around the world talk to each other like human > beings every day, and somehow manage to get things done.
<snip> > You're mistaking talking straight with being a jerk. They're not the > same thing. Jerks comfort themselves with that idea, but it's not > the case. You can call a spade a spade without calling the guy holding > it a spade-holding fuckwit and kicking mud on his shoes. What Evan said. I have attempted to be polite and respectful when suggesting that people have their packages hijacked, be replaced in various positions, be marked MIA, reread the Social Contract, etc. -- this is, at any rate, theoretically possible, although I am probably not very good at it yet. :-) -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/
