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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (36447)	8/29/1999 12:01:00 AM
From: PCModem	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

"So who says we support being hard nosed?" I believe it was coug who said something about it here: www2.techstocks.com "This is the sort of crude assumption that Coby called coug on." All generalizations can be criticized because they assume too much, don't take into account the "exceptions" and so on. No particular skill is required to point that out. I don't know that I would call coug's assumption "crude." Just young or maybe unsophisticated (which amounts to the same thing I guess, grin). Holding a strong opinion seems to be so out of fashion these days, don't you agree? One of the things that is true of humans is that we categorize things. Starting from the largest category and then subdividing as needed. We generalize. When faced with something new, we relate it to what we already know. A lot of social and interpersonal mistakes have been made because of that tendency. But it is also what makes us tick. That same tendency has made all the advances of science possible. It is simply how our brains assimilate and make sense of all the input (another generalization). It is how a baby becomes a thinking human. Saying everything that is true, or that one believes to be true, about a subject, takes a lot longer to do than this particular medium makes convenient. I think we have to make allowances for generalizations, over-simplifications, etc. As for me, I support being hard nosed about things that I consider it important to be hard nosed about. My response to coug was in part an explanation of the fact that I believe this society (through its government) is "hard nosed" about many things its citizens do which, in fact, are none of the government's damned business, including many of the things which he complains some here are boasting about while others languish in prison for doing the same things. His point emphasized one side of that circumstance, mine another. Oh, and last time I checked, Clinton was not really anyone's darling...not anymore. peace PCM