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Subject:Re: I apologize to the list From:Steve Fouts <stefou -at- ESKIMO -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:26:18 -0800
Arlen Walker <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> wrote:
>If my point of view goes
>unheard because I don't speak it, the responsibility is mine, not yours nor
>anyone else's. Yes, it's convenient for me to blame someone else for my
>decision. But convenience isn't truth.
And so the philosophical question becomes, "If I am silent when I have
something to say, am I lying?"
P.S. Arlen, my spell checker insits that your name is Arlene. Is there
something it knows that we don't?
_______________ _____
/ ___ __/__\ \ / / _\ Steve Fouts stefou -at- eskimo -dot- com
/___ \| | ___\ | / __\ I am the Lorax and I speak for
/ / \ | \ / \ the trees.
/_______/__|_______\_/________\ But not for SAFECO.