From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 22:14:41 MDT
"Nice" is showing you care.
So when the teacher commendates a student for a worthless
drawing that the student knows he or she put utterly no
work into, the teacher comes off as showing that he or
she really cares about the feelings of the student.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Jef Allbright
> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 6:08 PM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: proles with high self esteem
>
>
> And what is this "nice" you speak of?
> - Jef
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com>
>
> > In our kinder and gentler new world, nothing, it seems,
> > is so important as being *nice*. Tag, or anything where
> > there is the least excitement or competition, isn't *nice*
> > and so must be banned.
> >
> > > I suspect our society is seeing the results...
> >
> > Yes, while we may not accomplish anything else, no one
> > will be nicer than we.
> >
> > Lee
> >
>
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