On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 21:19:36 +1000 Erik Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10.07.18 10:37, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 17:46:46 +1000 > > Erik Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Ego drives young men to reinvent the wheel, then declaim "mine is > > > grand, and I deprecate (piss on) the old." > > ... > > > To make your statement true, you would have needed the word "some" > > before "young". > > No, that is not so. There is no "all" in the sentence, so it only > presents one set, not the universal set of all young men. Do not feel > bad about taking umbrage over misinterpretation resulting from a > baseless inference. It is human to make mistakes. Evil drives men named Erik to murder people: * https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a12231370/menendez-brothers-murders-trial-why-they-did-it-story/ * http://www.kptv.com/story/36531991/erik-meiser-convicted-of-murder-for-killing-lake-oswego-man-in-2012 [snip] > It is evident that some emotion was triggered by my opinion Oh, so you DO have an opinion that youth is an important factor in reinventing the wheel, but perhaps you allow for exceptions. And you're right: This *does* trigger my emotion. The first record I see of you on this list, Debian-User or Modular-Debian is 8/15/2017 (on this list). On the other hand, 7/1/2014 until I got kicked off in November 2014, I was on Debian-User, fighting to repeal the systemd debacle. Naturally, I was personally attacked, and the most common attack was "greybeard who can't learn new things." Real quick I got tired of hearing insults based on someone's age, especially when they involve wild, unproven generalizations. So yeah, I get perturbed when I hear that stuff. Perhaps you would too if you had been in the thick of the fight. There's room in the Devuan project for people from ten to a hundred and ten, so it's bad form to diss a particular age on this mailing list. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
