On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Andre Engels <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So instead we just give in to them? We get attacked and decide to just > sit up like a good dog? No one is acting "like a good dog." Bad metaphor. When your village is attacked and subject to future attacks, you build defenses. (Better metaphor.) All defenses compromise your ability to do something besides defend yourself -- that's the economics of biology. But we can't change the way the world works by denying it. > We dn't just say they're wrong, we join in to > congratulate them. > I don't see anyone congratulating Fox except Fox and the usual folks aimed at destroying us anway. > I promise you, this would almost certainly not be an effective counter. > > Not towards Fox, but how about other news avenues? I actually addressed this in my original posting. > but to me, our own ideas and values ... should not be sacrificed to our > popularity with a part of our audience. I agree and posted nothing to the contrary. > Even less should they be > sacrificed in a way that is likely to be uneffective (you yourself > said that Fox will present whatever we do as a proof of them being > right and us being wrong). > See, you even recognize that I already said we won't win over Fox. --Mike _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
