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Greg Cagle <[log in to unmask]>
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Greg Cagle <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:01:54 -0500
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 Denys Beauchemin wrote:

> Further this discussion is very illustrative of the differences between a
> conservative person (me) and the political opposite.  When I post a link to
> a newspaper article, I never insult the reader's intelligence or
> individualism by posting the entire article.  I don't consider myself more
> capable than they are by providing the entire article.  I know everyone on
> this list is perfectly capable of reading the article if he or she wants to
> do so.  I certainly do not cram it down their email client's throat almost
> forcing them to read it.  I also do not clog the email of the digest readers
> with huge articles that can be gotten from their respective web sites.

So if I read you correctly, you are saying that liberals have a habit of
quoting the entire article, whereas conservatives don't. Sorry, but I
don't buy it. You can say WIRT has a habit of quoting the entire article -
that seems clear to me. But mapping Wirt's behavior to all liberals is
a bit much. It's like saying that all conservatives have a habit of
overgeneralizing 8^).

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Greg Cagle
gregc at gregcagle dot com

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