On 06/10/2007, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 06/10/2007, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
No-one is saying we shouldn't try. I'm
just saying it's important to
accept that we will fail, and when we do, we need to do as little harm
as possible. We do that by erring on the side of sympathy (that is,
pretty much, what BLP says).
BLP says silence not sympathy.
And failing to mention the bad things people might have done isn't
sympathetic? It says silence on negative things, it doesn't say
silence on positive things - that's sympathy.