From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Aug 29 2002 - 18:04:00 MDT
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 07:39:06PM -0400, Michael Wiik wrote:
> Forrest Bishop wrote:
> > "Civil behavior, fellowship, charity, and compassion", and good manners, aren't religious values, they are simply good sense.
> > Various preists and other plunderers have hijacked these quailites to mask their untoward intentions.
>
> What's this, the meme patrol?
>
> Can't one make a speculative observation on some historical aspect of
> culture without the extropian inquisition bursting in?
Everybody expects the extropian inquisition! Our chief weapon is
predictability...predictability and rationality... rationality and
predictability. Our two weapons are rationality and predictability...
and practical optimism. Our *three* weapons are predictability,
rationality and practical optimism... and an almost fanatical devotion
to Monty Mython.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst
our weaponry...are such elements as rationality, optimism.... I'll come
in again.
[OK, now the requisite joke is done.]
While our questioning of the human condition has attracted many extreme
individualists who have a high variance of their sociability, I think the
main reason civility isn't very high is simply the medium. Mailing lists
aren't conducive to politeness, or at least list cultures do not induce
politeness as efficiently as RL cultures. Nothing to worry about, just
something to change one's own behavior after.
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