--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of authfriend > Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 7:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Reward vs. Punishment: a different kind of > moderation > > > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > <snip> > > Isn't there some evolutionary lesson in this > > feud with Judy thing that you have yet to fully learn? If > > there is, then we'll know you've learned it when you don't > > take the bait no matter how tempting. > > When ***BARRY*** doesn't take the bait??? > > Rick, Barry is the *baiter*, not the baitee. > > (OK, I'll say it before someone else does: > Barry's the master baiter.) > > No kidding, Rick, if you haven't figured this > out long since, you simply haven't been paying > attention, or you're letting your biases blind > you to what's been going on. > > What an astonishing thing for you to say. > > I know you're dying for me to say that he's more to blame than you are, but > I actually haven't been paying attention closely enough to say that for > sure.
Yes, that's clearly a big part of the problem here: you haven't been paying attention. And you therefore are incapable of being fair. All I can say is that you each nibble the bait the other dangles, and > neither of you has proven capable of concluding your little game. Everyone > is sick of it. If either of you completely stops and the other continues, it > will be obvious which of you is the most seriously afflicted. Try requiring Barry to stop and see what happens.
