See, Don, that's exactly what Group Think means. You're so confident in your own right-ness that you dismiss any divergent opinion as inappropriate, incorrect, invalid, uninformed, or just plain dumb. *Just* like you've dismissed mine. After all, I don't belong to your social solidarity network, and I've committed the crime of disagreeing with you! How could I possibly have a valid opinion!
> Buzz words aside, our situation is unique and an argument can be made
> for an exception to reporting requirements.
We are not exempt from the rules that we base our arguments on. Period.
> I doubt it will have much of an effect, but there it is. I am
> flabbergasted that you cannot see the validity of these points as I
> have laid them out, even if you disagree with them.
You are undermining your own argument. Nothing like that can be valid.
> This has nothing to do with a sense of general superiority because, as
> much as we all like to joke about Fig. 1, we know very well that every
> year it becomes less and less true.
Actually, it doesn't. But I neither have the inclination nor the time to educate you on what I'm talking about, and I doubt you'd even listen because I'd obviously be trying to expose you to theories that support my arguments, and glossing over the ones that don't.
Mike K
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