On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:13:44 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> I'm curious why many of these discussions which seem to me lively and
>> interesting also seem to just ... stop without coming to any sort of
>> explicit closure.
> 
>   When a conversation is going basically nowhere, and especially when
> the tone of the text is not the most positive, people get tired of
> arguing.
> 
>   People don't like being told in harsh words "that's not true, you
> are wrong", even if that's the case. Being too blunt about someone's
> error (especially if it's actually not completely clear if there *is* an
> error) is usually not going to get very positive feedback. People feel
> attacked. Sometimes someone may actually realise he's not completely
> right, but he still may feel that he doesn't deserve such a blunt
> response.

You're wrong.

<scnr>

Jim

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