Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site ism780 Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!ism780c!ism780!jimb From: jimb@ism780 Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Win/Win Players vs. Win/Lose Pl Message-ID: <62800006@ism780> Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 14:38:00 EST Article-I.D.: ism780.62800006 Posted: Mon Mar 24 14:38:00 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Mar-86 06:46:28 EST References: <548@dsi1.UUCP> Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #R:dsi1.UUCP:548:ism780:62800006:000:860 Nf-From: ism780!jimb Mar 24 11:38:00 1986 > The Win/Lose player says, "I have to win even if I'm wrong." The Win/Win > says, "We both have to win even if one of us is wrong." It seems to me > that both types of players are telling a lot of lies. > > Lee I think you're missing the point in that an awful lot of situations "right" and "wrong" depend purely on perception -- a sort of quantum view of psychosociology -- and as such, two not-equivalent statements can still be true. Now, ideologists of all stripes and flavors, from John Birchers to religious fundamentalists to the theoreticians of the Soviet Communist Party can and do deny this, clamoring in unison, "There is but one way!" -- from the musings of an ideological moderate, Jim Brunet "Me? I'm just looking for Schrodinger's cat." ihnp4/ima/ism780 hplabs/hao/ico/ism780 sdcsvax/sdcrdcf/ism780C/ism780