Peter Nilsson
11/5/2009 11:13:00 PM
Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> wrote:
> Tim Streater <timstrea...@waitrose.com> wrote:
> > In the context:
> > > Why would you offer advice in group of C specialists
> > > if you only "think" that's what you used to do?
> >
> > Why shouldn't I? If I'm wrong, (certainly not excluded,
> > see above) then I expect I'll be corrected by those who
> > know better.
>
> And this is why the status-weenies are idiots. They
> actually can't conceive of you doing something in order
> to learn or develop,
Of course, we all learn through intelligent discourse,
but it's not particularly productive, educationally or
professionally, to be sloppy because you _expect_ others
to clean up after you.
'If I'm wrong people will correct me' is an attitude
that invariably places a burden on others to actually
do so. At the very least it is taking people for granted.
Asking questions is more conducive to development
than giving careless answers, whether qualified as
recollections or not.
--
Peter