On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 02:40:52PM +0300, Horst Lederhosen wrote: > > > There's no need for any platonic ideal of justified speech. Just count > > > the number of people who like your style versus the number of people who > > > are pissed off by it and adjust accordingly. > > > I reject this notion that communication is a popularity contest. > > Unfortunalty many people have this thing they call "feelings", which makes them > adjust their opinions on you according to how friendly or rude you are to them. I don't really care about their opinions of me. Or are you prepared to argue that MJ Ray's description is correct, and that "I don't like them" is sufficient reason to get a mob together and attack somebody? I did not ask for preaching about how I could make people like me; it's really quite irrelevant. I challenged those doing the attacking to justify their claims. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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