--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <LEnglish5@...> wrote: > > >
> > Aside from a few sociopaths and/or trolls, I suspect that you can make the > claim that everyone who bothers to post on the internet has some stake in > what they are talking about. > > > Lawson > True. Otherwise why take the time to post it. However "stake" in this context is not limited to "vested" intellectual or emotional interest. One may want to explore an idea,not attached to where it leads, happy with any insight or conclusion that appears stronger, more insightful than from where the journey began. Their stake is in understanding things better. The other bookend are posters who are strongly, clinically addicted to their ideas, conclusions and views. Such posters may even have their self-identity wrapped up in these ideas and conclusions. Such have a HUGE stake in their posts because diminishment of their posts translates directly into diminisment of their souls, self-identities or at least addictive pleasure sources and drug source. Most posts fall somewhere in between.
