In article , Alun
writes:

"Kim W5TIT" wrote in
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"Bert Craig" wrote in message
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"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message
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"Alun" wrote in message
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It just so happens that I don't
like CW, in the sense of I have no desire to use it. That should
be OK too, but for some reason it bothers you. Why?

No it does not bother me that someone who has learned it chooses not
to use it. They have made that decision from a position of
knowledge and experience. This is radically different from a person
judging it and saying they will never use it when they do not have
that knowledge and experience to draw on.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

Right on the money, Dee. Larry pointed this out earlier, but not as
eloquently as you.

73 de Bert
WA2SI

It fascinates me that you won't accept someone's plain and simple truth
that they don't like CW--even if they don't have experience with
it--because you reason that they need to have "knowledge and
experience" with it. Well, I know people who are quite well-versed in
CW who don't like it, people who haven't ever even tried it and don't
like it, and people who have taken and passed a 5wpm test and don't
like it. I also know people from those same three categories that do
like CW operation.

It's pretty much as simple as folks who do or don't like most other
things in life. Either ya like it or ya don't.

Kim W5TIT

I think that you have hit upon a very important point there, Kim. A good
analogy might be not liking an item of food that you haven't tried,
because it looks disgusting on your plate. If you eat some you might like
it, or not, but there are probably all kinds of other things that contain
the same nutrition. These guys are like a parent telling a child that they
have to eat their brocolli. But they aren't my parents and I don't like
brocolli, or CW. I take vitamins, and work phone.

Excellent analogy, Kim and Alun!

[...shades of "Mommie Dearest" I used some months ago... :-) ]

Morse code is 159 years old. It was first used in COMMERCIAL
messaging back in 1844. It has quite a lot of history of use to base
an effectiveness of communications. That base and history is why
morse code is only used in amateur radio today. All the commercial
and military users have dropped morse code use in the rest of the
radio world. Morse just isn't as effective as its believers think.

Dee insists that "enlightened" folks "have to experience something"
before stating an opinion on it.

Okay, so all the obstetricians have to be female and parents before
being allowed to supervise birthing? All gynecologists have to be
female in order to treat women patients? Same logic.

Catholic priests will have to have been married at one time in order to
advise engaged couples about to marry. Military people will have to
go out and engage in combat, killing someone FIRST before they can
state an "enlightened" opinion on war. Absolutely NO ONE can voice
any "enlightened" opinion on politics, foreign policy, economics, or
homosexuality unless they have DONE any of those things... :-)

Absolutely nothing NEW can be done because no one has any
experience in doing it. The ONLY way to stay "enlightened" is to
remain in status quo forever. :-)

Was Thomas Edison "enlightened?" :-)

Some of these pro-coders are a little too enlighted in the head.

LHA