On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Tony Abernethy <t...@servasoftware.com> wrote: > Donald Allen wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Artur Grabowski <a...@blahonga.org> >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Donald Allen >> <donaldcal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Thanks for the compliment, but I'm a *lot* older than nine. >> > >> > Yet you still believe that it's ok for guests to tell the hosts how >> to >> > behave in their home. >> >> Your analogy doesn't go far enough. Better: guests in a home being >> asked for contributions and also being insulted, both by the hosts. >> >> > Amazing. What culture are you from? >> >> One that values civility. > That means that you prefer systems that can do anything wrong just > as long as they talk nice to you. > Me, I prefer systems that actually work, and a wee bit of seeming > rudeness is a very small price to pay.
So you believe civility and correctness are mutually exclusive? Interesting.
