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To: unclewest who wrote (134300)	8/25/2005 6:41:51 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793738

Like I said negative projection... That's not a negative projection. It's not a projection of any kind. It's part of analysis. Analysts take the available facts and consider the full range of possibilities. In this case, as I have already stated, it could be that the woman is an over-sensitive twit who was in denial of her obesity and is blaming the sainted messenger. Or it could be that this is a seriously ill woman whose condition was exacerbated, potentially tragically, by an incompetent doctor. We can not know from the available information. I'm not "projecting" her depression and suicide. I don't know or even suspect that that's the case nor do I favor it in any way. I'm pointing out the possibility, the other end of the range of possibilities, to people who have rushed to judgment in favor of the doctor and against her without enough thought or information. I'm saying "wait a minute." Were this a thread with a bias toward a knee-jerk reaction that the doctor was a murderer, I would have raised the possibility that the woman was just being oversensitive or in denial. My hobby horse is the rush to judgment, the thoughtlessness. I would have argued against a prevailing thread reaction regardless of which bias produced it. Think of it as a devil's advocate role. It is very very difficult to see when you have an opposing view...particularly if you are bent left. When one is bent, so bent that one bypasses thought in favor of that bent, it's hard to see well anything beyond one's preconceived notions. Sometimes such a bent even causes people to relegate anything that doesn't resonate with them as "negative" or "left." Thought is the treatment for that, not the problem.