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- From: wsadjw@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Jan Willem Nienhuys)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: tv & science education
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- Date: 23 Jan 93 14:50:58 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.4286.31906@dosgate> <1993Jan21.023618.13092@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.023618.13092@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") writes:
- [many useful remarks deleted]
- >
- >How can you possibly complain about "unprovoked attacks" when you tell someone
- >that you are a member of Mensa? Would you still find it odd if you replaced
- >that declaration with the equivalent statement "I'm smarter than you, and I
- >can prove it!"? That, sir, is arrogance, and I am proud not to be associated
- >with it.
-
- Seth has a point there. But on the other hand, why is it that such a
- statement is felt to be more arrogant than:
- I'm taller [heavier, stronger, paler, blacker, fatter, thinner, mory hairy,
- richer, a better painter, quicker, from an older family etc. ] than you and
- I can prove it?
-
- JWN
-