On 18-10-2020 00:53, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:39:01PM -0700, Weaver wrote: >> On 17-10-2020 15:05, Michael uplawski wrote: >> > Leslie Rhorer: >> >> Until someone does earn respect, there is no reason anyone >> >> should afford it them. It is utterly ridiculous to think everyone >> >> deserves respect. >> > >> > This is where you are excluding yourself from the human community. Face >> > it. Live with it. *We* will be fine, anyway. >> >> Rubbish! > > Tone not helpful here on either side.
Rubbish is rubbish Some may see a point in dressing it up as otherwise. I don't. >> There are certain qualities which must be extended before you are worthy >> of receiving them, trust, loyalty, to mention a couple, but you can >> throw respect in there also, along with one or two others. >> I have to earn the respect of every child I meet, and maintain the >> standard every time I encounter that child in the future. >> Some, in their retarded viewpoint, believe respect is something >> engendered by social position. > > Retarded is not a helpful term here or, indeed, anywhere. Retarded is retarded. You seem to prefer to believe it is aimed at an individual, when it is clearly applied to a viewpoint. >> Wrong! >> Social position is engendered by earned level of respect. >> `excluding yourself from the human community', what a load of puerile >> ignorance! >> > > Puerile here is also not helpful. Considered, constructive language > which advances a thought through viewpoint is preferable. > Another way of putting it "never argue with an idiot on the Internet. > After a couple of rounds, a dispassionate observer will not be able > to tell who's who" Puerile is puerile. `Immature, especially in being silly or trivial; childish'. The terminology applies: employ it. `Considered, constructive language' - is language which communicates effectively. `which advances a thought through viewpoint' - Pseudo-intellectual waffle! You know another method? Observation is dependent on conditioned viewpoint. Beginning, end, and entire middle of story. > If you were to treat your readers with a greater consideration for > their intellect, you might come across better. A discerning intellect would have not sent this to me directly, would have identified the aspects specified more accurately, and kept it on list. <snip> > See also Edward Gibbon - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter 2 We live in exactly those times, a classic example being played out before our very eyes. -- `Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful'. — Lucius Annæus Seneca. Terrorism, the new religion. Registered Linux User: 554515