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To: DMaA who wrote (25149)	1/19/2004 9:52:33 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793782

I think it's more constructive/destructive My basic way of managing my own behavior and evaluating that of others is on a constructiveness scale, as well. Just as I don't think of people in terms of like or dislike but rather in terms of interesting or uninteresting, I'm not into right and wrong but rather constructive/destructive/neutral. If there were a way of sorting SIers by frequency of use of various words over time, I'm sure I'd have the record for the use of the word, constructive. <g> Having said that, it seems to me that there are differences between what people on the left and right consider constructive and destructive. One of the differences is that "fundamentalist social conservatives" <g>don't seem to have a category for "neutral" and deem "nonconstructive" many things that are just personal preferences and that don't matter greatly in the grand scheme of things. I have a very large neutral category, which makes me a social liberal even though my personal behavior and my preferences are fairly conservative. "Live and let live" seems to singlehandedly assign one to the social left.