[extropy-chat] Fighting mad! (was transhumanist nut jobs & transhumanism going extinct)

Samantha Atkins sjatkins at gmail.com
Fri Jul 28 03:36:21 UTC 2006


On Jul 26, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Russell Wallace wrote:

> On 7/26/06, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> This looks needlessly officious in part.  Non-official people getting
> pissed and rounding on the editor is a perfectly reasonable and not
> ineffectual action.
>
> I agree as far as that goes, but I also think it is important to  
> come across as calm and reasonable, whatever one's actual emotional  
> state may be; sounding like one is hopping up and down and foaming  
> at the mouth is likely to be counterproductive. (Not saying you  
> were advocating the latter, but it's something that needs to be  
> kept in mind anyway.)

Damn.  I like hopping up and down.  It is good exercise and fun to  
get out of the head now and again.  :-)

- s
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