On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Wally Day wrote:

>
> Case in point. Most of us tolerate or even enjoy
> postings by Amadeus even though he is a "born again"
> vegetarian and it seems at times he's trying to
> "convert" us to his way of thinking. Would anyone
> consider his postings "offensive", even though his
> nutritional views are diametrically opposed to most of
> the list members? I think not.
>

The difference is that Amadeus uses reasoning to try to convince us of
his
position. If he simply told everybody that he knew all of the answers,
and the
rest of us would just have to have faith in him, I doubt if many
people would
bother to listen to him.


Andy.