Randy wrote:
>  There is a fine line between consistency  and dogma.

There is wisdom in this.  Again and again I've fallen into this trap in my 
career.  For a while I this at the top of my quotes file:

   A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, 
   adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. 
   With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
   He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the 
   wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and 
   to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words 
   again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
   -- 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- 
   Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was
   misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and
   Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and
   wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be
   misunderstood.

   Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, 1841
   http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm

Now, let me be clear:  this is NOT a dig at  6!:0  or Roger or anyone else.  It 
is an observation of myself.

In fact, my first reaction to your example ( 2: ) was "but that's different!".  
Then, trying to articulate why, I said, aloud, "Is it really?".  You've got me 
thinking.  Thanks for that.

-Dan

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