I'm biased against that guy 'cos he mugged me
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Posted by: Jonti ® 04/02/2005, 05:18:50 Author Profile Edit Alert Moderators

You say that those who have been let down by another's dishonesty are likely to see their betrayer in a false light ("more evil than he actually is"). But most people would say that the dishonest person has, by their act of betrayal, revealed their true colours. Especially if those acts of betrayal are systematic and charactaristic. Ordinary English usage is that those who don't know about a dishonesty are deceived -- and so are likely to experience the perpetrator as less evil than he actually is. And ordinary English usage would be to say that those who do know about the dishonesty -- those who are *not* deceived -- are more likely to be seeing the perp in his true colours. So I have to tell you I am puzzled by your use of English. It seems to me calculated not to clarify, but rather to obfuscate, the issues. Jonti -- never a premie Modified by Jonti at Sat, Apr 02, 2005, 05:24:40

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Re: I'm biased against that guy 'cos he mugged me --- Andries ( Sat, Apr 02, 2005, 05:33:51 ) ( 189 bytes ) +1 dishonest and unprincipled --- Jonti ( Sat, Apr 02, 2005, 13:43:16 ) ( 2314 bytes ) +1 Re: Trying to clarify what I meant to say --- Andries ( Sat, Apr 02, 2005, 14:52:23 ) ( 526 bytes ) +3 You know why that's offensive, Andries? I'll tell you --- Jim ( Sun, Apr 03, 2005, 17:02:18 ) ( 591 bytes ) I meant to say what I did --- Jonti ( Mon, Apr 04, 2005, 06:36:05 ) ( 1477 bytes ) +1 Re: I do not know the realistic level of negativity --- Andries ( Tue, Apr 05, 2005, 12:24:57 ) ( 687 bytes ) +2 Andries, look up the definition, please! --- NAR ( Tue, Apr 05, 2005, 16:26:34 ) ( 1140 bytes ) +3 Thanks NAR --- Jonti ( Wed, Apr 06, 2005, 04:59:53 ) ( 473 bytes ) Re: narcissistic personality disorder? --- Andries ( Wed, Apr 06, 2005, 06:58:41 ) ( 895 bytes ) link +2 "Sociopath is not an accepted term by the psychiatric establisment" --- Jonti ( Thu, Apr 07, 2005, 04:51:14 ) ( 2659 bytes ) +1 Re: I didn't know, thanks for pointing that out --- Andries ( Thu, Apr 07, 2005, 08:25:12 ) ( 841 bytes ) link +1 Also simple. --- Jonti ( Thu, Apr 07, 2005, 16:17:07 ) ( 809 bytes ) +1 Re: Am I unopen for evidence of being wrong? --- Andries ( Fri, Apr 08, 2005, 07:26:48 ) ( 330 bytes ) You're so wrong, Andries... --- Cynthia ( Thu, Apr 07, 2005, 07:02:54 ) ( 1343 bytes ) +1 Re: You're so wrong, Andries... --- Andries ( Thu, Apr 07, 2005, 08:09:42 ) ( 318 bytes ) Re: I guess you are using your military experience as a comparison --- Andries ( Wed, Apr 06, 2005, 12:02:30 ) ( 1035 bytes ) "most Nazi war criminals were no sociopaths" !!! --- Jonti ( Wed, Apr 06, 2005, 05:52:18 ) ( 1406 bytes ) +1 Right on the money, Jonti! --- NAR ( Wed, Apr 06, 2005, 10:14:06 ) ( 438 bytes ) Andries, answer this simple question, please --- JHB ( Mon, Apr 04, 2005, 15:39:33 ) ( 349 bytes ) +2 You can't be serious, John..... straight answer? --- NAR ( Mon, Apr 04, 2005, 19:35:15 ) ( 753 bytes ) +1 OT Nar, what is a good book or website on RF technology? --- Andries ( Tue, Apr 05, 2005, 12:58:58 ) ( 40 bytes ) Re: Andries, answer this simple question, please --- Andries ( Tue, Apr 05, 2005, 12:14:46 ) ( 147 bytes ) +1 Thank you --- JHB ( Tue, Apr 05, 2005, 17:32:03 ) ( 353 bytes )