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To: Ellen who wrote (657)	4/30/1999 2:06:00 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3795

Ellen, Can you see any difference between wanting to "just" educate people and beating them up with it? Yes, I can. Sometimes one must fight fire with fire, and respond in a language or format that the recipient(s) can understand. In sports, it's sometimes called putting on your game face... From reading some of these BB stock threads from the beginning, it is always the devout "longs" that initiate the name calling and inappropriate language. As I have stated before, this is because these folks have jumped in with both feet, mouth wide open and eyes shut tight. When the evidence of a scam is presented, these folks feel they have no other choice but to "shout" down any evidence, "kill the messenger", and hype the price back up to a break even point so they can unload their mistake on someone else (a variant of the bigger fool theory). It happens all the time. Go back and look at some of the now proven scams and skim the threads through from their beginnings. The pattern is the same on thread after thread after thread. I have an advantage over many of the SI people in that I wasn't emotionally or monetarily involved in these scams or threads. So my perspective is to see the forest, not the trees. Can you see when the "education" stops and it simply becomes mean-spirited abuse? Again, yes I can. Some people are capable of forgiving; others simply are not. If one is not emotionally involved in the debate then one can step back from the threads and see the larger picture. The mean-spirited abuse that you refer to is easily found on both sides of the coin. I think it is unrealistic to expect people who have been involved in a war of words (sometimes for months on end) to simply forgive and forget, and move on to the next thread. The hurt and the insults, the ego "wounds" so to speak, incurred in the heat of battle just run too deep. It takes time for a significant cooling down period to run its' course. And then too, there is the fact that many of these folks have suffered serious injury to their wallets as well as their egos. KJC