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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (67605)	11/23/2002 8:23:05 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I suggest that you try to use the words "I disagree" less often. Not that you should agree more, just that the fact of your personal agreement or disagreement is really not interesting. It's the substance of a position rather than that you hold one that is interesting. You are intelligent, though you have dead spots. You can analyze well, though you have dead spots. They matter. When a person shows many and repeated failures, a pattern of them, to read "lines" and what is between them, I don't think they get to brag that there have been other occasions on which they comprehended something. The fact is, either you have failed to understand a great deal, or you understand, and lose the only excuse there could be for some very inhumane, often cruel, behavior. Here's a very recent example: Your ridiculing of Jewel this evening. He has said nothing ridiculous. He is a person of high ethical standards in posting. He is a "seeker of truth," in his musings, to a much greater degree than is usual on SI. He is intelligent and perceptive and often original. Your behavior toward him is evidence that you either can't read between the lines (or even the lines themselves, often), or of an ethical failure on your part, imo. Just an example from the last very little while.