-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nomen wrote:
>Rather than make accusations about other people, why not eliminate the >middleman and make accusations about yourself? End your hypocrisy. Say, >"I may be sucking up to law enforcement agencies. I may be recording >people's browsing habits and supplying them to interested parties, >with appropriate compensation. I am not deserving of trust, in fact I >may be concealing betrayal. I don't have a problem with this at all: a symmetric lack of trust the most honest basis for a relationship there is. Wouldn't you rather associate with sharp-witted people who are on the ball than gullible quibblers fretting over at what point they get to suspend their critical faculties and give you a free pass in the name of comraderie? Trust is overrated. Anyone who asks for it without earning it is either a fool or a huckster. Either way, asking for it is a sure sign it shouldn't be given. Where do you imagine the term "confidence artist" came from, anyway. > Nothing I have done in the past should be >interpreted in any way to assume that I will not change in the future >and begin selling out my friends and those who rely on me." >You believe that this is the attitude we should take towards you, don't >you? Why not come forward and say it. If you don't think we should >trust you, say so. If you don't think you deserve our trust, admit it. So be it: Whatever I have to say about it is quite irrelevant--it shouldn't be my place to do your thinking for you. What you do trumps what you say every time, so it's really a non-issue. If you don't know enough about what I do to decide for yourself, what possible difference could my reassuring you what a good little girl I really am make. So no, I don't want your blind trust at all. >You don't need to search out other people's flaws when your own are so >much closer at hand. Where's the flaw in saying trust should be more than an empty word. ~Faustine. *** The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms. - --William O. Douglas, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPAP/lvg5Tuca7bfvEQKmpACgsd/w68mGGcmQbxSt0R5tlCV9IZEAn2xT VC68ga3/VMWQFpTQ6v1RUcnZ =KJYg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
