[WikiEN-l] Psychology of problem Wikipedians: excessive "need for cognition"

[Karl A. Krueger]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 11:19:47AM +0100, David Gerard wrote:
> Karl A. Krueger wrote:
> >When people attempt to explain other people's actions in terms of
> >psychological disorders or oddities, it seems to me that it often
> >reflects a lack of respect or human sympathy for the people thus
> >diagnosed.
> 
> [snip long post not addressing the point at all]
> 
> Gosh, I guess that means we can't call obvious problem cases obvious
> problem cases, and certainly can't try to address the actual problem,
> because it might be rude to do so. Thanks for clearing that up.

What a mind-numbingly bad misreading of my post.