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- From: "dan mckinnon" <dan.mckinnon@canrem.com>
- Subject: tv & science education
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.4286.31992@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "dan mckinnon" <dan.mckinnon@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: sci
- Date: 23 Jan 93 23:13:04 EST
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- JWN>>How can you possibly complain about "unprovoked attacks" when you tell some
- JWN>>that you are a member of Mensa? Would you still find it odd if you replaced
- JWN>>that declaration with the equivalent statement "I'm smarter than you, and I
- JWN>>can prove it!"? That, sir, is arrogance, and I am proud not to be associate
- JWN>>with it.
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- JWN>Seth has a point there. But on the other hand, why is it that such a
- JWN>statement is felt to be more arrogant than:
- JWN>I'm taller [heavier, stronger, paler, blacker, fatter, thinner, mory hairy,
- JWN>richer, a better painter, quicker, from an older family etc. ] than you and
- JWN>I can prove it?
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- Thank you, I didn't think I was so inarticulate. My point
- precisely. Like a lot of things in life, it simply isn't fair, that's
- all.
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