From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 17:22:36 MDT
Hi everyone,
Naturally there are a lot of interesting messages that I'm
going to have to read through starting in a few minutes,
but I do want to take a moment beforehand to emphasize how
important it is to do we can to lower the level of rhetoric,
and to let cooler heads prevail.
(Of course, we cryonicists have an ulterior motive here 8^D
Regardless of how bad it looks, try whenever possible to stop
short of accusations. One trick that works for me is to
abruptly change my (now written) accusation into a question.
Here is how: Append the words "Why shouldn't someone think
that" before the accusation, and then add the words "given your
remark here?", or "since you say [quote]".
Presto. You've made your point, you've said what you're
thinking, and yet, as the other party studies what you have
written, he or she can find nothing unfair or excessively
confrontational.
Lee
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