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Re: what is this folow up thingy?
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Wed, 28 Oct 1998 18:34:40 GMT
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Moz,
Did you read this one?
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.off-topic.fun:212 .
You have quoted only the car analogy bits that lead up to the main points in
the paragraphs, and left out my thesis. I have the feeling that you were
just responding to some of the examples I used, and not necessarily
disagreeing with what I was really trying to say. But your quoting has left
out my message entirely.
LINC
Moz (Chris Moseley) wrote in message ...
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> On topic bit: I agree with Mike. Asking stupid questions is better than
> making stupid mistakes, but it's better still to avoid both. And research
> is easy on the Internet (or I want my money back ;)
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> Linc Smith <ldsmith@pfc.forestry.ca> wrote
> > Why shouldn't everybody know about car repair? Do you have
> > some "strange sort of pride in" your lack of car repair knowledge?
This was slightly sarcastic use of an similar example the Mike used... not
my main point.
> Yes, definitely. I've never owned one and possibly never will. I'm a
> passenger infrequently, drive rarely (once a year?) and it's more than a
> year since I travelled more that 100 miles in one. What would be the
> point in me knowing how to fix a car? I consider them morally
> unjustifiable for most people and classic symptoms of the waster years
> we're in.
I grew up in Canada, my *driveway* was 5 km long! If you didn't include the
driveway, I could get to town in your 100 mile quota, of course I would then
have to wait a year get back home with the groceries. :)
> All knowledge is not of equal value. I mean, do you know how to perform
> an emergency tracheotomy? You could save save someone's life with that
> knowledge.
You probably don't want to hear that I am a Medic eh?
> > Now, I *know* that you can pay someone to change your oil or adjust your
> > brakes, and if you did this it would be easier for me (given that my help • is
> > the alternative) and this would make you completely self-sufficient.
I go on to say in the very next sentence my point.
"But why? I enjoy helping my friends, and it usually means that when I need
help
they will enjoy helping me. And if I never receive reciprocal help from
that friend... who cares, hearing "thanks a lot Linc" is worth my effort."
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| On topic bit: I agree with Mike. Asking stupid questions is better than making stupid mistakes, but it's better still to avoid both. And research is easy on the Internet (or I want my money back ;) Linc Smith <ldsmith@pfc.forestry.ca> wrote (...) (...) (26 years ago, 28-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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