interview questions

Lee Berman · 07 Jan 2011, 20:50 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:50:12 -0500
Subject: (urth) interview questions
Message-ID: <SNT123-W37A540DF14C11A32D0D703CF0B0 at phx.gbl>

>Dan'l Danahy-Oakes: This is a forced and false dichotomy. It is possible for Gerry to
>believe you are wrong without believing you are stupid.

I disagree. When you tell someone else they are wrong it means you either think they are: 

1. ignorant- i.e. they do not have access to the full range of information necessary 

or

2. stupid- i.e. they do not have sufficient brain power to use the information correctly

Perhaps you are suggesting Gerry doesn't mean to label others globally, just on a certain
point of contention. I can accept this. But the fact remains calling someone else "wrong"
is a designation of inferiority, even if only in limited scale.

As most people using normal social discourse understand, there are ways of disagreeing with
other people which still show a full measure of respect for their knowledge and intelligence.

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