Posted by pat123 on February 11, 2001, at 1:39:34
In reply to Re: Civility Dr. Bob, posted by shellie on February 11, 2001, at 0:25:16
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> Your response came across to me as an premature effort to protect Zrip, rather than thinking about the logic or non-logic of what she said. And the fact that Zrip had requested the feedback should have been considered.
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>Anyone who has been on the internet has been through this; I take a post one way, you take it another and sometimes the author ment it another way ! I still think I erred and should of asked "what do you mean" before I assumed.
Shellie you are correct, I found Rzip's statement weird (taken literally) and really would not of said anything had Rzip not have just asked for feedback. I see an arugment as plasuable or not and I don't see calling a poorly constructed argument not logical a put down. It is more a statement of fact. Facts are not rude, they are correct. I've come up with some real mess myself, though ! At work I have to sift through, parse and analyze a lot of data, I'm a database programmer, so I see an argument as true or false; the data either predicts the result or not. I do realize this clarity is seen as blunt to some; that is why I feel I should of asked first.
Pat
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