--- In [email protected], "Jeff Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of them has > > to be RIGHT, and the other WRONG. And therefore the only > > "proper" response to a contrary view is to challenge it > > and draw the other person into an argument, during which > > the goal is to prove one person WRONG and the other RIGHT. > > The further "down" somebody is, the stronger the compulsion to > be "RIGHT": Constant assertion of rightness because one's own > sanity depends on "being right". IMO the more one aserts > "rightness" in the face of huge evidence to the contrary, the > further down the scale they are.
I'm not sure I'd say that consistently insisting that one is RIGHT indicates that they're low down on some scale. More like terrified to move UP the scale, wherever on it they might be. Being RIGHT all the time disallows learning anything new, which may be the whole point. Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
