N2EY wrote:

Mike Coslo wrote in message ...

N2EY wrote:

In article , "Clint" rattlehead at computron
dot net writes:


WHO is doing the name calling?

Both sides.


it's not the NCTA group calling
the PCTA "lazy", "stupid", and an assortment of complex insults
using spurious comparisons.

it's not the PCTA group calling the NCTA "elitist", "arrogant", "luddite",
"stuck in the past", "jackbooted thugs", "stoked on morsemanship", and an
assortment of complex insults using spurious comparisons. Like "nazis".

I think you'll be told "That's different".


Of course.


Somehow, some way, some
people are convinced that since they are "right" that civil behavior is
not necessary.


As demonstrated by Bruce, Len and a host of others on both sides.


Problem is not one of our positions is right or wrong. Its all opinions.


I disagree. Some positions *are* simply wrong. For example, polluting
the electromagnetic spectrum with BPL noise when many other, better
technologies exist is simply *wrong*.

Okay, I'll amend that. I was thinking of test requirements. I'd agree
that BPL is technically bankrupt and an idea of dubious "smarts".




Other positions, like the code test thingie, are really all about
opinions and nothing more.

But then it is easier to just lump everyone together into two groups.


Sure. "Us" and "Them".


Then dehumanize them, so that whatever you do is okay, and ends justify
means.


And the answer is to refuse to play that game.

Pretty much.

- Mike KB3EIA -