Subject: Re: FAQ-how to make?

From: [email-masked] (David R. Conrad)
Date: 25 Dec 1994 06:07:28 GMT

In a previous article, [email-masked] (Lucien Saumur) says:
>     Most people feel as you do that it is better to live in a
>friendly and polite society rather than in a grouchy and rude society
>and that it is better not to be grouchy and rude oneself because the
>people around will often react in kind. ...

True enough.

>                                    ... They also can be friendly and
>polite without effort and they do not need a humanist organization to
>tell them that they should be. ...

You said before that you didn't go in for attacking religion.  Why are
humanist organizations fair game?

>                           ... However, some people are grouchy and
>rude and they seem to enjoy it. I feel no urge to preach to them that
>they would better enjoy being friendly and polite.

Why do you feel an urge to preach to those who feel an urge to preach
to them that they would better enjoy being friendly and polite?

Besides, what if it has never occurred to them that being friendly and
polite has its rewards?  Where is the harm in telling them so?  Isn't
that part of the freedom that you so prize?

Regards,
David R. Conrad
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