X-Message-Number: 17339
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:52:39 -0700
From: Mike Perry <>
Subject: Understanding George Smith: Another Comment

George Smith, #17323 (again):
>I have found
>with amazing consistency that EVERY TIME someone drops the need for "self
>evaluation" in favor of "other evaluation", the quality of their lives
>improves.

By "other evaluation" I assume he means that one evaluates others rather 
than oneself. And it now appears that basically that is the point he has 
been trying to make all along (right?). One should evaluate others and hold 
them to standards rather than doing that to oneself. (I must credit some 
off-list, third-party correspondence for this insight.) I can see that this 
approach has merits, but surely some downsides too. (What about terrorists 
like McVeigh or Kaczynski?) Anyway, I don't think this has to undermine the 
basic position that the self has worth. That neither implies nor precludes 
that one is making a detailed evaluation and holding oneself to certain 
standards.

Mike Perry

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