On 06/10/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/10/2007, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/10/2007, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@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.
It does say silence on positive things. Read the opening section. Of course if you do read it you will put yourself in an extreme minority but that is something you may have to accept.