Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
At 10:56 AM 4/2/04 -0500, Viajero wrote:
Ed's behaviour simply confirms my suspicion that there is an authoritarian lurking in the soul of every rightwinger.
This is also unhelpful.
I strongly suspect that there is an authoritarian lurking somewhere in *every* human soul, one of the unfortunate impulses we need to guard against in ourselves.
I agree. It often takes a great deal of intrapersonal intelligence to overcome this. I regret that I often see some otherwise highly respected members of the Wikipedia community become so taken by the correctness of their own views that they leave very little room for alternative ones.
Yes, I do see Ed as having a strong tendency to authoritarian opinionation, but unlike most of the crew in that boat he doesn't insist on riding the boat to the bottom when it has been torpedoed.
Ec