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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!siobhan
- From: siobhan@microsoft.com (Siobhan Harper)
- Subject: Re: Golden Rules of Polyamory
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.213813.13575@microsoft.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:38:13 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <BzDKHz.Cr0@wrs.com> <1992Dec17.073920.26845@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Dec17.073920.26845@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
- >>3) Avoid people who are not honest; who claim one thing
- >>and act another; who are not sure what they want (not
- >>honest with themselves).
- >...
- > The last part, though, needs some qualification - not
- >everyone who isn't sure what they want is being dishonest with
- >themselves - some people just don't know. And some of those
- >people might find themselves very happily polyamorous, if someone
- >were kind enough to suggest it to them.
-
- When I first read this rule in Jessica's post, I took it to mean
- "someone who is not sure of what they want can end up hurting you."
- Perhaps the writer of the rules did mean literally "avoid", in
- which case I would disagree with the first and second as well. I
- just think that the "rules" delineate three kinds of situations
- where the potential for getting hurt exists. If, knowing that, you
- make an informed choice to take that risk, at least you do so in
- understanding. And, as you pointed out, it's not at all a certainty
- that you will get hurt; you might find the risk to be pleasantly
- rewarding. I would interpret those situations as ones to be careful
- of and informed about, not necessarily literally to be "avoided".
-
- --Siobhan
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