Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:08:06 +0200
From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected]
But let me turn the table around, Lennart, and ask you: what arguments
will actually convince _you_ to change your mind on this? Following
Karl Popper, if your answer is ``nothing will change my mind'', then
this is a religious type of argument that we should just stop, because
it has no hope of any agreement whatsoever.
That is a good question.
Which you didn't answer, sigh...
In what sense did I not answer it?
In the sense that I still do not know what would convince you to
change your mind. For example, if I would to argue with someone which
of two apples to buy, telling me that one is 10 times cheaper than the
other might make me change my mind.
I am not the easiest one to convince, but it is in no way impossible.
I tried to point out the answer. What is needed is not very different
from when you meet other people. You must try to meet me where I am.
And I failed for similar reasons to make it possible to convince you.
You were arguing from a managerial standpoint. I tried to mix this
standpoint with estimates of some details in the problem. If you wanted
to convince me I then I think you should have to follow me a bit on that
road.
It would be nice if you commented on this because I honestly fail to
understand why you did not do that. I can of course think of a lot of
reasons, lack of time for example. Or that you did not find my arguments
valuable. Whichever it was I think it would have been easier to get a
bit longer on the road to convincing me if you explained your reasons
for the turn you took.
I tried in the prev-previous mail to do explain something similar from
my point of view, but I think I missed something there since you thought
I did not answer you.
I have a feeling that the difficulties to meet is for some reason mainly
a lack of trust. That may be personal for me, I do not know. It is easy
for me to say that I trust your experience and appreciate your concerns,
but that I think differently. But it is not easy to get the message
through to you.
Maybe because of the media and the way we communicate. Maybe because we
actually have different styles of thinking as I understand it.
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