Social Niceties (was Re: Diplomacy game)

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a.f.wilson jotted this down:

> Being willing to at least attempt to break through limitations, is what

> separates the great people from the mediocre ones. The human project is about

> being better humans... whatever that means to each of us.

I think that depends on which limitations you're talking about.

If it's accomplishing things (including educating others) in spite of

socially-imposed barriers, then I'd agree... Though as an autistic mentioned

elsewhere, we shouldn't need to do that in the first place.

If it's just reinforcing those barriers by playing along with them without

offering any kind of challenge to their presence, then the only thing it seems

to accomplish is making sure that the next person has an even harder time.

I can't think of any " great people " whose primary goal was blending in; I have

heard of many " great " people that didn't.

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