On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Richard Vickery < richard.vicker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Robert Myers <rbmyers...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> Not to worry. Just as soon as you stop talking about me, I'll >> disappear. If you want to refer to someone by their last name, it is >> customary to use the appropriate honorific, the last name by itself >> being taken as rude. In my case, the appropriate honorific would be >> Dr. So address me or refer to me as Robert or Dr. Myers, not Myers or >> Mr. Myers. >> > > Myers: > > Since when did you get the insane idea that you could somehow control > others, much less how we address you? Newsflash: that's not how this > Hobbesian state of nature that we live in works. Me thinks you need some > more education - this time in political science, because you're an idiot. > First you come in here shooting your degrading mouth off in disrespect to > the rest of us, and then you have the gawd-damn gall to demand that we > respect you? Where the f--k did you get this crazy idea? Respect is earned, > my friend (using the term very loosely). What you chose to do instead is to > treat us all like pee-ons, which results in the treatment you receive now. > > What did you get your Ph.D. in? Basket-weaving? Because it sure seems that > you missed some very important classes: like the one that teaches you how > to respect others in order to get respect back. You, sir, are not worth > your papers. Clean up your act and perhaps, 20 years down the road, you may > earn our respect. > > Adding to this: the only thing a Ph. D. tells me, as a student, is that you know how to play the game well, and for that, the university can offer you a teaching position. It doesn't necessarily say anything about knowledge, much less anything about wisdom; just about playing the university game.
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