On Wednesday June 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1: Sheeple (n): People that act like sheep - ie: they cannot think or form > opinions for themselves and always look to someone else for their thoughts > and parrot the opinions of some "trusted" figure.
I recommend that you avoid definitions like this. Using them simply makes you appear to have a very poor understanding of your fellow humans. "cannot" and "always" are absolutes that never apply (well, hardly ever). In my experience, most people do think for themselves and do form opinions about areas where they have an interest/ability, and tend to follow trusted others in areas where they have less interest or ability. The problem that I think you see is particularly the "parrot the opinions" bit. When a person tries to argue a case based largely on the opinion of someone else with little personal understanding, they are in very risky territory. This is akin to 'fundamentalism' that you also mentioned in your post. Accusing people of arguing opinions that are not their own may well be appropriate. Accusing them of not be able to think is not. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
