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Sinergy -> RE: common curtesy (4/28/2004 9:28:12 AM)
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Greetings,
quote:
Familarity breeds contempt.
I heard that Familiarity breeds attempt...
I work in user support dealing with customers all day long. I am required in my professional life to deal with everybody with common courtesy and respect, whether or not I am given reason to do otherwise.
I studied with a 9th degree black belt for 17 years. In all that time I never once saw him treat any other human being with anything but respect and courtesy, and I for one modelled that behavior as well.
One of my jobs (I work 2 at the moment and I am looking for a third) involves state dependant teaching of self-defense. The states I am professionally required to put the person in to are anger and fear. I do this rather well. So attempting to pick fights and create conflict when I am not at work seems way too much like taking my work home with me.
Lastly, I have worked in and around cyberspace since the 1980s, am a published writer, and the quote "think twice, post once" seems to apply to most message boards. Text based posts do not carry with them the 70-90% non-verbal cues which normal conversation does, and they are very easy to take wrong / misread. Flaming a person for what they think tends, in my mind, to reflect very poorly on the person doing the flaming.
Sinergy
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