On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:13:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 19:13 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Mon, 09 Jan 2006, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: > > > Miles Bader wrote: > [snip] > > > > I, for one, am far more interested in the message than the way which > > the message is conveyed. > > The way the message is conveyed *is* part of the message. Yes. When somebody puts on a smart suit and tells you, in 'polite' and clipped tones, that everything you believe in is wrong and that you should instead do things *his* way, then you know that not only is he a self-obsessed bigot, he's dishonest about it too, and furthermore that he thinks you're stupid enough to believe that he's being nice to you. At least if he didn't *pretend* to be polite then there would be a certain amount of integrity in his actions, and probably less actual insult. Dishonesty is *not* an equivalent substitute for respect. If you're being nice to somebody even though you don't like them, that doesn't make you a better person, it just makes you a liar. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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