Santosh, 'Someone else's opinion need not be yours or mine'. An opinion is a mere opinion which could be also far from Facts and Truth, depending what factors are take into consideration, however I understand being on the Goanet since its inception, every member is entitled to his/her opinion, how others are influenced by the opinion depends on their attitudes and perceptions. 'What a man thinketh in his Heart, so is he' Leo Conrad Dubai. Message: 1Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:47:13 -0800 (PST)From: Santosh Helekar <[email protected]>Subject: Re: [Goanet] Samir has never been communalTo: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!"<[email protected]>Message-ID: <[email protected]>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- On Thu, 12/25/08, Carvalho <[email protected]> wrote:> > On this Christmas day I have to defend Samir. To my memory> he has never been communal. He was the only Hindu to> immediately condemn the Orissa violence and to my memory has> never taken a communal position in political issues.> I know that Samir is not a communal-minded guy because I know him for more than three decades. But this business of deciding who is communal or not based on their condemnation of this violence or that, or taking what someone perceives as a "communal" position in political issues, is a rather frivolous and superficial way of forming serious opinions about other people. It depends on whether or not the person forming the opinion himself/herself has a communal bias. Moreover, it assumes that he/she has a clear understanding of the issues in question that is comprehensive enough to know that disagreements with him/her on them could only be for communal reasons. Things are never this simple in reality. As I have said before, the world is never so black and white. That is why relying on such superficial perceptions in a public forum is unfair and unhealthy. Cheers, Santosh _________________________________________________________________ Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos.
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