On Jan 27, 11:47 am, Grant Edwards <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2011-01-27, Octavian Rasnita <orasn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you don't care about communicating with others, then being civil > probably does have no value (except for keeping a job or being > avoiding being beaten up on the playground). If you want to > communicate (especially if you want somebody else to _do_ something), > then being civil and following normal social rules (etiquette) is > _very_ valuable. Without it the only thing you accomplish is to turn > people against you and whatever you're saying. When has Octavian been uncivil? This lecture of Octavian is ludicris! > There is no inherent "value" in driving on the right side of the road > vs. the left. However, there is a lot of value in driving on the side > of road that others expect you to. I'd tell you to try driving on the > other side of the road sometime to see how "easing communication" can > be valuable, but I'm afraid you'd try it... So i get it. When Ocatavian agrees with YOU he will be driving on the "right" side of the road. Until then, he is breaking the law and could cause a head on collision that could kill people. Wow good thing you were here to warn him of his "illegal" position and set him strait! You are such a friendly totalitarian, how do you keep a strait face -- Col. Hans Landa? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
