On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:28 +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > 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.
With beliefs like that, no wonder this world is going to hell in a hand basket. Manners/politeness is social lubricant. It makes society run smoother and less violently. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "Diplomats were invented simply to waste time." David Lloyd George, British prime minister -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
