Richard Carroll on Nostr: Lawrence Auster on having, applying, and insisting on standards in matters large and ...
Lawrence Auster on having, applying, and insisting on standards in matters large and small:
If people began having standards, in apparently trivial things such as e-mail etiquette as well as large, and applying them, and firmly but politely calling on others to have standards and apply them, instead of, as now, having no standards,—or at least no standards that they will, as liberals put it, “impose on others” (oh, horrors), our society could begin to climb back from the ever-more hellish slippery slope it has been descending for the last fifty years.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/024368.html
If people began having standards, in apparently trivial things such as e-mail etiquette as well as large, and applying them, and firmly but politely calling on others to have standards and apply them, instead of, as now, having no standards,—or at least no standards that they will, as liberals put it, “impose on others” (oh, horrors), our society could begin to climb back from the ever-more hellish slippery slope it has been descending for the last fifty years.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/024368.html