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  2. From: sethb@panix.com (Seth Breidbart)
  3. Newsgroups: soc.singles
  4. Subject: Re: Honesty, Your word, and Trust -- a crisis?
  5. Message-ID: <C1HL7y.3M5@panix.com>
  6. Date: 27 Jan 93 00:26:21 GMT
  7. References: <MARTINC.93Jan23132913@grover.cs.unc.edu> <1993Jan25.144344.27709@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <MARTINC.93Jan25233544@grover.cs.unc.edu>
  8. Organization: Society for the Promulgation of Cruelty to the Clueless
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  11. In article <MARTINC.93Jan25233544@grover.cs.unc.edu> martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin) writes:
  12.  
  13. >The part that seemed reminiscient of someone in particular is the part
  14. >where they (1) over-literalized (2) transformed your statement into a
  15. >crisp black-and-white statement (3) realized that wasn't precisely what
  16. >you meant, and (4) proceeded to announce that you *lied* to them.
  17.  
  18. I'll often do (1), (2), and (3) (but not seriously, just because I
  19. sometimes get into silly moods).  (4) I won't do, because honesty is
  20. important to me, and I won't accuse someone of lack of it lightly.
  21.  
  22. Seth
  23.