Re: "Full Disclosure"

Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> "John Gabbriel" <johngabbriel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Too bad, you hit a brick wall this time. They probably just don't have
> > time. Did you try contacting Gerardo? And importantly, did you ask them
> > politely?
>
> I said that the Wine experts I consulted hit a brick wall when they
> asked. I did not ask myself, they did.

So you are speaking based on someone else's experience...

>
> >> Two comments seem appropriate. I haven't "tried to enforce"
> >> anything. How could I?
> >
> > You can't. Yet you try. How very ...
>
> Perhaps you have misunderstood then. Since I can't *enforce*
> anything, how have I tried to? Asking someone to do a nice thing, and
> them saying "no, I refuse to", is not "enforcing" anything.

Hrmm. Asking someone something to do it requires what? 1 post from you?
Asking once is different from repeatedly asking (and mixing insults
along with the 'requests').

>
> >> And it's delicious to be called a fanatic the week that I'm teaching
> >> Thoreau and Mill to my students. What an odd statement: that
> >> passionate defense of what a person thinks is right is ipso facto
> >> objectionable.
> >
> > What an odd coincidence. I am talking about Nazism this week. btw, what
> > defense are you talking about? You weren't on the defense! You were
> > offending.
>
> The Nazis were of course jack-booted thugs. Are you comparing me to
> them? Is saying "it would be nice if you would share this instead of
> hoarding it" now the same as Nazism?

People can be fanatics about what they please. Hopefully it will be
something benign, unlike the Nazis. I am not comparing you to Nazis at
all. Do you think I ought to? Your fanaticism is annoying, especially
when you use up a couple dozen posts on the REC.GAMES.BRIDGE newsgroup.
Hopefully it isn't anything harmful.


*plonk*

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