--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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. >
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