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Subject:Re: small invoices, big egos From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 25 Jan 2003 15:21:55 -0500
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From: "Andrew Plato" <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: January 25, 2003 03:14 PM
Subject: Re: small invoices, big egos
| I see litigation as a failure; a break down of reason and common sense over
| ego, pride, and emotion. I'd like to believe that people, under the right
| circumstances, can allow reason to govern their actions. Unfortunately, many
| people are incapable of reason.
Doesn't take much reason to understand that people post here in good faith and
need to be treated with respect.
They resort to name calling, posturing, and
| anger to impress their will on others. These same people are always quick to
| demand "justice" from some third party, which in a sense is just an
infantile
| need for vindication over one's actions.
|
They resort to mocking sincere first-time posters. They plague some mailing
lists like cholera, and pout when someone is foolish enough to tell them
they're pathetic jerks.
| > Sorry, but don't ask me for a break, and here is a great website for
| > getting rough translations of foreign text:
|
| Whatever.
|
It's not smart to turn down the opportunity to learn something new if one
wants to succeed in the world.
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