Le 17 octobre 2020 23:03:22 GMT+02:00, Weaver <wea...@riseup.net> a écrit : >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
You currently just are making yourself look both arrogant and ridiculous. I guess this is why Andrew sent his reply just to you, instead of giving you another shovel to dig with. I don't know what you are trying to achieve here, but I stand my point : your lack of respect for others is not welcome here. Regards. -- Pierre-Elliott Bécue
