Re: An observation

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

Gary Morrell writes:
> At 8:59 PM -0800 12/23/96, Dave Crocker wrote:
> >At 8:39 PM -0800 12/23/96, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >>Thom Stark writes:
> >>> It seems to me that when Mr. Metzger speaks in terms of "details"
> >>> as something that "we are not anxious to change", he is both speaking
> >>> specifically for the IAHC, rather than himself,
> >>
> >>And I'm purple and have big bat wings, too.
> >
> >	Honest, folks.  They're not that big.
> >
> >	On the other hand, maybe we should define 'big'.
> >
> >d/
> 
> Folks this is precisely what troubles me about the IAHC. Thom wrote a very
> thoughtful post,

No, he wrote yet another comment to the effect that the IAHC has
already decided everything in advance, etc. This is not thoughtful. It
was not only counterfactual but also highly divisive.

Having chosen to state as "fact" these notions, I decided to gently
point out that they were counterfactual. I could have chosen to be
cruel, or even crude, but I instead chose to use a light layer of
comedy to get across my point. I personally think of this as being
more civilized than many of the possible alternatives.


Perry