Re: Crocker's Rules (WAS: Women, fire...)

From: Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Tue Sep 28 1999 - 14:54:34 MDT

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Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:

> > Politeness exists for a reason, and I believe that denying it is
> > going to impose costs which could have been avoided.
>
> I would phrase it "politeness /evolved/ for good reasons", with which
> I agree. So did pain. That doesn't mean we can't transcend both.

The correct phrase would be simply, "politeness evolved".

BM

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