<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Thank you David, for this and your earlier post. Very refreshing.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>]3</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Jul 23, 2005, at 2:48 PM, David Lubkin wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">That I present a position does not mean that I either agree with it or do not. That was, in fact, a central theme of what I *was* saying -- I don't start from the premise that people who have different concerns or conclusions than I do are necessarily stupid, evil, or wrong. Rather, that there are viewpoints other than my own that are worth understanding, considering, and taking into account. And that, in most everything I believe to be true, I may in fact be wrong. Viz., extropian principle 7 --</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>