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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17339