On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Michael M. Butler wrote:
> I consciously adopt the language of my audience. At the end of a
> recent post, I mentioned God even though I'm an agnostic. Was the rest
> of the content valuable, or rendered valueless?
The latter. To cite a recent case, a superficially reasonable email on
post-WTC policy sailed into my inbox a few days ago. It made sense right
unto the final sentence, which read "God bless America". Now, I don't
trust people basically driven by inscrutable motivations. One might
support points of policy, warily so, but certainly not the person pushing
it. Sooner or later, the dissonance must surface.
He might be playing for his audience, but can you afford the benefit of
doubt in such cases?
-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a>
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