From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 18:29:13 MDT
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 16:55, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 03:17 pm, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> > pchaston wrote:
> >>
> >> Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
> >
> > Violence is the last refuge of the competent and the first refuge of the
> > incompetent.
>
> Violence is the first sign that the competent have become incompetent.
The mark of the exceptionally competent is that the violence is never
overt; violence can be far more subtle and indirect than a bludgeon to
the skull. There is no need to accomplish by attrition that which can be
accomplished by intelligent manipulation.
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com
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