Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: esper41@yahoo.co.uk (esper41) Newsgroups: japan.anime.evangelion Subject: Re: A Sudden Shock on Sunday Morning Date: 21 Aug 2002 15:52:01 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: <3d4d0e25_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.106.215.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1029970321 2123 127.0.0.1 (21 Aug 2002 22:52:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Aug 2002 22:52:01 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.anime.evangelion:2070 "Disaster" wrote in message news:... > "esper41" wrote: > > "Disaster" wrote: > > > "esper41" wrote: > > > > "Disaster" wrote: > > > > > So what? That's totally beside the point and for these matters > > > > > unimportant. Obviously we are not talking about Adults, we are > talking > > > > > about kids. Don't change the subject. > > > > > > > > Your post implied that you belive adults to be superior to children, > > > > and I was merely arguing that that is not always the case - by the > > > > same token, if you look hard enough you will find an 8-year-old > > > > smarter than you and me put together. > > > > > > Superior is not the right term. We are all equal as humans go. However > an > > > adult will always be smarter then a child, more experienced and so > forth. > > > Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure this rule has it's exception. For > example > > > someone who has abused alcohol for years and as a result has suffer > > > several strokes will most likely have a severally reduce mental > capacity. > > > > > > But don't sit there an suggest that I have implied something I have > not! > > > Your use of the term superior is an ugly attempt to twist my words > into > > > something that looks like unjustified bias. > > > > > > No 8 year old has the life experience of myself, let alone you and me > put > > > together. There is no point in having huge intelligence if you don't > know > > > how or why to use it. > > > > I'm sorry if I misinterpreted your post, and I certainly didn't mean > > to offend you as much as I seem to have done - perhaps we should just > > agree to disagree on this, I don't want to makean enemy of you. > > How old are you? A lady never tells. Unfortunately I'm a guy, so you've put me in a rather awkward position -do I lie, tell the truth or simply refuse to answer? All three options have different positive and negative results (if I say I'm young I risk my credibility, yet I earn the chance to prove my point by trying to write intelligent, well thought-out posts from now on; if I say I'm older, I am more likely to be considered an equal, yet I lose the afformentioned oppertunity; and if I decline toindicate either way, I get myself out of thisrather sticky situation, yet you are almostguaranteed to decide one way or another for yourself), so I have to ask, Disaster, do you really care?