Day 260 - 11 Jun 96 - Page 34
1 A. Naturally, yes.
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3 Q. In terms of common aims and common values, are you talking
4 about a general, for example, concern about the
5 environment, concern about welfare of animals, concern
6 about employment conditions, or something like that?
7 A. Yes.
8
9 Q. You are not talking about a specific issue; it is about a
10 general concern for wanting to change the way that society
11 was run?
12 A. The reason for this paragraph was because if one person
13 had a specific hobbyhorse of, for example, anti-animal
14 exploitation/rights, or something of that nature, they
15 assumed that everyone else had a similar attitude towards
16 it.
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18 Q. You cannot actually know what their assumption was, because
19 you are assuming what their assumption was. But in terms
20 of how that was conveyed, that was because when they spoke
21 out about the subject they were interested in, they did not
22 ask other people whether or not they were interested in
23 it? That can be the only -----
24 A. It was just assumed that if somebody was interested in
25 organising or wanting to talk about an animal rights
26 subject, that they would talk to me and assume that I was
27 also interested in the same subject.
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29 Q. So, this comment that you have put, then, is just based
30 upon conversations with you; it was not on conversations
31 within the whole group?
32 A. Yes. It was conversations directed at me, and also the
33 way people talked to each other within the group.
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35 Q. Because every time I ask you a question about how it
36 happened with the whole group, you turn it back to
37 conversations with you. What I am saying is that someone
38 who was particularly interested in a particular subject
39 would start talking about that subject, without first going
40 round the meeting to say, "Are you interested in hearing
41 about this", and from that you then gained the impression
42 that they assumed everybody was?
43 A. Yes; and, again I add, it was not specific to the
44 meetings; people expressed the same attitudes at the
45 meetings after -- the groupings in the pub after the
46 meetings had taken place.
47
48 Q. When they talked about this particular subject they were
49 interested in, not everybody was going to participate; so,
50 again, it appeared like they had just assumed that
51 everybody was interested?
52 A. They naturally assumed, or they assumed naturally as
53 far as they were concerned, that the person to whom they
54 were talking was also interested in the same subject.
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56 Q. But in terms of -- I am talking about, rather than
57 individual conversations, the actual meetings. When a
58 person was talking about a specific subject, they would not
59 go round the group first to find out whether everybody was
60 interested in listening or becoming involved, or anything
