>Universal Thread Visual FoxPro forum wrote:
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>> Granted, but I think with the "me-centricity" the limits can be too
>> easily
>> exceeded. Once I forget that you and I share some of the very same
>> qualities, and that you are entitled to your own set of likes,
>> dislikes,
>> and opinions, I've lost respect for you, whether I realize it or not.
>> That's the shame, we both deserve it. I think that it's very easy to
>> do
>> that if I'm only concerned with "me".
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>The danger if you do not allow any personalization and polarization of
>the debate is that it might not really take off. I think that when we
>debate we necessarily reduce our thoughts, in my case sometimes I even
>write things I did not know I thought :). This reduction helps to
>express things and it is healthy when people take sides. At the end of
>the day, this helps people to bring relevant and less relevant arguments
>pro and con... and so we can come to a synthesis. (I know, Hegel ...:))
(Now I'm impressed -gt)
>Some devils advocate-ion is called for, even sometimes a zest of bad
>faith, as long as we exchange our views, which I personally find more
>interesting, albeit less financially retributing than the discussion of
>one or the other syntax topic.
>
>Of course all this must remain within the limits, but with have Michel
>and rule #3 to watch over us. I agree that he does a wonderful job, but
>I'd like him to be a bit less touchy sometimes.
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I think we're really talking (writing?) about perceptions of the same side of the same coin. To clarify, some care needs to exercised to insure that to listener/reader doesn't feel peronally affronted. For example, if I feel strongly about about a topic, saying, "I don't know how anyone could feel otherwise," shouldn't provoke an angry response. Saying, "I think that anyone who doesn't agree is an idiot," is entitled to one. The former demonstrates a strong feeling, the latter a clear lack of concern as to how it will be interpreted.

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>OIC, thanks.

No problem
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>>>Since you seem impressed by that quote, and in light
>> of
>> the application of rule #3, consider the following:
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>> "Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a good deal worse." -
>> Cervantes
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>My god! You _are_ good...
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Naw, but they were. I'm merely parroting back their wisdom.

Take care,

George