Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 08:48:29 +0000 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The lack of common sense wrt recent issues Message-ID: <200302070848.h178mTaX011012@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:28:22 PST." <200302070728.h177SR188905@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>
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Dave Hayes writes: > It seems that if someone becomes unreasonable and angry, this makes > anything that happened before irrelevant and unassailable. Never mind > what actually happened, apparently if someone starts posting scathing > flames, they are automatically wrong and previous events are > discarded. Sort of. I believe that it is the Japanese who say that if someone loses his temper, he automatically loses the argument. If you can't keep control, you shouldn't be playing the game. > Real truth is not measured by the level of anger. It's measured by > what actually happened, which might be independent of the anger. When anger is overwhelming, how can objective measurement work? More objective outsiders have a (slightly) better chance, but the person with the temper runs the very grave risk of turning many people against him from the outset. > The only one I've seen posting in this regard is Greg Lehey. > Kudos to you, sir, for recognizing that: > > "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > > This has no relationship with whether your complaints are justified. > > That's an issue which will take longer to research. > > I've no clue into the politics of these situations. If this man > and this topic is on -core, there is hope yet. Greg is on core, yes. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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