"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message
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"Kim W5TIT" wrote in message
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I was actually commenting, allbeit out of synch, on your defense that
someone can't know they don't like something without experience...etc.
I
think that argument is quite indefensible...since it's quite common to
decide that one doesn't like something (or does, for that matter)
without
any particular experience with it. For example, things I don't, or
wouldn't, like that I've never tried:

parachuting
picking up clothes at a cleaners
dropping off babies to daycare
raising grandchildren
holding snot in my hand
bungee jumping
parasailing
rough sex
working in a foundry
getting a tattoo
being bald
all kinds of food
spelunking
building a computer...or anything for that matter
being a man

Add countless other things to that list.

If you accept the premise above that I don't like those things without
ever
having tried them, then you should accept that I know I would not like
CW
without having any real experience with it.

Kim W5TIT



I do NOT accept the premis that a person can know what they like without
trying something. While there are many valid reasons for not trying these
things, you cannot know if you would like them or not. For example, the
fear of heights and the potential risk factor stops me from trying
parachuting. Thus I can never know whether I would actually like it. In
the case of the 5th item on your list, it could be downright unhealthy and
should NOT be tried even if you think you would like it.

There's lots of things in life that I thought I would not like until
experience proved me wrong. I originally got into ham radio simply
because
my husband at that time insisted I do this with him. Of course I "knew"
that I wouldn't like it and was only doing it to please him but in the end
I
was proven wrong. It is one of my favorite pastimes.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE


Your mileage may vary, Dee, but I *know* I would not like any of the items I
listed. And, I cannot believe anyone would do something (outside of
employment that is) because someone insisted on it--most of all a spouse or
family member--who should know far better than to "insist" on anything from
me that I don't wish to do. Nor would I insist of anything from them.

Kim W5TIT