>I'm not trying to imply here that this is the case for any or all of the
>antagonism we've witnessed over the past few weeks but without knowing
>someones underlying motivation (which we rarely, if ever, can), it's
>difficult to comment. We could ask what that motivation was but to
>reveal it may be to undermine the results (I have specific examples from
>my own life in mind).
Quite true. No matter what example I came up with, someone could invent
a rational explanation. I should have been more explicit with the assumption:
"assuming that one doesn't set out to become disliked" was meant to be the
only applicable motivation for the example. Obviously any number of hidden
agendas could override it.
-- David McFadzean david@lucifer.com Memetic Engineer http://www.lucifer.com/~david/ Church of Virus http://www.lucifer.com/virus/