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In a message dated 5/29/2002 9:43:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> They're neurotic?
> Afraid to be wrong?
> They've made bold statements and don't want to have to go back and say, I
> need to rethink this?
> Some people just want to be right no matter what.
> I've noticed the ones who can't defend their position any more, and still
> won't give it up, are the one's who then cry they've been attacked
> .
> Be what ever you want to be, but face it bravely, and don't call it what
> it isn't.

Contrary. I think some people are just overly contrary. They have an INSTANT
contrary resistance to anyone who acts like they have any expertise. They
perceive anybody who has strong opinions as "opinionated" and accuse them of
putting themselves up on a pedestal and so on. It doesn't matter to them what
the opinions are based on or whether or not they make sense.

I think we ALL probably have some of that in us -- that's what LET us reject
the authorities who say things like "School is a child's job."

Some people just have too much of it and it clouds their logic.

IF they have that extreme contrariness AND they are stubborn, too, they
disrupt lists with unnecessary contention.

--pam


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