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On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:45:45 +0000 Elfyn McBratney <beu@g.o> |
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| On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:40:31PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:33:17 +0200 Simon Stelling |
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| > <blubb@g.o> wrote: |
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| > | Respect is something that should be applied unconditionally, in |
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| > | my opinion. The "you don't so I won't" attitude gets us nowhere. |
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| > But if respect is unearned and undeserved, it's meaningless. |
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| > What's the point of being respected if every incompetent jackass |
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| > is respected? |
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| In a similar vein, what's the point in the meaningless replies, when |
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| all you're going to do is be disrespectful? |
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Perhaps you should look up 'respect' in a dictionary sometime. It does |
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not mean the same thing as 'courtesy'. |
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| If you can't say anything constructive, why not just keep it zipped? |
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Now that *is* irony. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk |
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