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> [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of dr. Imre Bartfai
> Sent: 2004 Jul 23, Fri 14:29
> Subject: Re: [OT]: Hello again
>
> Howard,
>
> you told as from my heart. However, there is some
> linguistical aspects which make the decision between
> *offending the person* and *criticize the
> statement* not so easy as there is a gray zone between them. Only as
> example: *what you told is bullshit* *u behaves like a
> bullshit-speaker
> IMHO* *u talk like a bozo* *u're similar to a bozo* *u're a
> bozo*. So the gray zone is not zero width one. The problem is
> only, different person feels the frontier between black and
> white (somewhere in the gray zone) at different level and of
> course, almost all people think the line is for all the
> people exactly at the same level. I am personally a sensitive
> man so I feel me occasionally also offended when the other
> person did not intent to offend me. It may depend on wording, too...
> Excuse me for my not-native tongue spoken English. I hope I
> could express what I think.
>
> Regards,
> Imre

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So true. The theory of relativity as applied to human social interaction. I
tend to look at it as probabilities. The nicer your post, the less chance
there is of offending.

And this leads to using a "fuzzy logic" approach to figure out what action
is best for the list as a whole. On the one had, this makes it very hard to
"justify" or explain my decisions. On the other hand, it does, in fact, make
it possible for me to be influenced by my own personal bias.

On the gripping hand, it seems to have worked well.

James Newton: PICList webmaster/Admin

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I guess you can only go round this loop so many times/
Seems a shame though.

Those who do not learm from history are doomed to repeat it.
Can't think what the lesson was though :-(



            RM 

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