From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 21:40:21 MST
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>>Mike Lorrey wrote:
>>
>>>Countries would not go to war against each other if one side or the
>>>other were not lying about their point of view.
>>>
>
> A minor, but important, clarification: if two countries ar at war,
> _at least_ one of them is lying; it's quite possible (indeed likely)
> that both of them are. It's the same with personal conflict: if
> two people have strongly-held beliefs that directly oppose on
> another, at least one of them is wrong--but that in no way implies
> that one of them is right.
>
Far be it from me to disturb blanket generalizations of such
clarity.
- samantha
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