Author: Michael Neish
Date: 22:45:30 01/11/00
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>And not selective in the posts you decide to present to us to prove that my >defending myself is "childish". My complaint was not with that particular >thread. Okay, I will look it up, if you could tell me roughly when it occurred. Was it soon after the thread I just posted? Hmm, I think so. The lawyer posts you refer to are meaningless anyway if one doesn't read its genesis. Of course if I produce only the post where someone doubts your ability as a lawyer, it won't say much either will it? Now the posts I reproduced earlier sparked the whole thing off. Therefore they are of prime importance. Who made whom angry first? Everything has a cause, and it can all be traced back to a beginning. In this case someone innocently sent a game in which he beat a strong computer and you challenged him in a rather untactful way which implied he was a liar. Things escalated from that point. Much much later some people said you wouldn't make a good lawyer. Of course you were offended, and rightly so, but you cannot ignore what came before that. If you'd shown some sign of listening to other people's well planted arguments against your position, it would never have got that far. Surely you can't expect to annoy people and expect them to remain civil with you while you continue to annoy them, do you? There are various ways to defend oneself, I suppose. Defending oneself per se is not childish (as you say above), but the manner in one chooses to do so can be. Claiming that one is being unfairly attacked from all quarters when one doesn't recognise who provoked the attack in the first place quite possibly qualifies for this category. By the time people started questioning your ability to be a lawyer they must have become pretty frustrated with you. Why were they frustrated with you? Because something you had said earlier had done so. They didn't do it cold. >To tell you the truth, if certain people wish to judge my standing up for what I >and a great many others view as absurd allegations, that is fine with me. I am >frankly getting bored with the vitriolic venom i am getting here and in my >emails. I think we're all tired. Maybe we should all take a deep breath before answering angrily. If you have such an opinion and post it here, the great number of people who disagree with you will try to prove you wrong. If you don't want your opinions (on this matter) to be criticised it might be better not to post them. If you post and people reply, then the civil thing to do is to pay attention to what they are saying. If you don't do that, things will start to get out of hand. etc etc etc Mike.
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