>Tim Rhodes wrote:
>>But I will say this: Thinking you're "right" and
>> deserve to win a game, doesn't do you any good if you don't first
>> understand how to *play* and *win* that game.
>
>True. But what point is there to winning if you go about it in a way
>that makes you unable to respect yourself?
Hmmm... let's remember the roots of this discussion. As I wrote:
>By painting one you oppose as less than you--more
>fearful or stupid or lazy--you deny that they may be motivated by the
>same drives as you, deny that they may be as complex and caring
>as yourself.
Now, IMHO, all of us here are intelligent enough that we can (and do) find
ways of generating, for ourselves, the self-respect you mention above
without being dependant upon the labeling of others as lesser than us, just
so that we might feel better about ourselves.
-Prof. Tim