[WikiEN-l] Fwd: The counterattack of the PR companies

[Thomas Morton]

On 19 April 2012 15:22, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Charles Matthews wrote:
>
>> If someone tells you to drive at 5 miles under the speed limit rather than
>>> to drive at the speed limit, he may be trying to keep you from getting
>>> too
>>> close to a line.
>>>
>>> If someone tells you *not to drive at all* rather than to drive at the
>>> speed
>>> limit, that no longer has anything to do with "getting close to a line".
>>> He's just making up his own rules.
>>>
>> Or he may have noticed that you are off your face or otherwise not fit to
>> drive, and is applying common sense. Good metaphor.
>>
>
> If I'm not fit to drive, he can tell me "you're not fit to drive."
>  Claiming
> that it's because it has anything to do with getting close to the line is a
> lie.
>
> And the analogy doesn't work with drunkenness because there's no conscious
> action you can do if you're drunk that will make you fit to drive.  The
> analogy would require that he thinks I'm unfit to drive because I never
> learned how to drive, but he ignores that I passed the driving test.


In fact this analogy could work in the context of learner drivers; for whom
advising caution as they start out is a good thing! :)

Same applies to any newbie Wikipedian.

Tom