[Bioforum] Re: BIONET is public, we have to live with it.

[Brian Fristensky]

Christian Praetorius wrote:
> tarweed at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>Sometimes our ideas are good sometimes they are very
>>dumb/stupid/misguided.  Thats live.  A newsgroup is public -- a place
>>for sharing those ideas good and bad.
> 
> 
> And in most of the cases you only learn in a discussion to decide
> between the good and not so good ideas. People must only accept, that
> it is no shame to have ideas, which are not so good.
> 
> Christian
> 

Great point! That is perhaps one of the most important contributions
that discussion groups can make -- to show people that it
is okay to change your mind.


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