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Thursday, December 16, 2004

Ad hominem

As Arendo Joustra, editor of Elsevier News Weekly and one of my mentors, once told his young apprentice (me): never try to make yourself look big by making someone else look small.
In the past week, however, I've read with astonishment three articles by three people I (used to) admire degrading three other people on a personal level. One of the three attacked persons is dead now, which makes it all the more distasteful.
(And no, I won't be mentioning any names, as that might make me guilty of doing exactly the same, although I'm sure it would be more fun to read.)

Must be the spirit of Christmas, ensuring there'll be plenty to make up for next weekend.

10:25

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Epibratie
"I believe in life. I believe in treasuring it as a mystery that will never be fully understood, as a sanctity that should never be destroyed, as an invitation to experience now what can only be remembered tomorrow. (...)
I believe in liberty. I believe that within every soul lies the capacity to reach for its own good, that within every physical body there endures an unalienable right to be free from coercion. (...)
I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer."
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