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Mark, I gotta disagree with you here. Being quiet and just shaking your head at the idiots does nothing to institute the changes needed to where the agencies WON'T be turning out the idiots any more. It takes a lot more courage to open your mouth and call bullshit than it does to just be quiet and let it continue to happen. Don -----Original Message----- From: Mark Bush [mailto:diving@mo*.co*] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 4:31 AM To: techdiver@aquanaut.com; cavers@ca*.co* Subject: RE: "SCUBA Fight Club" "Internet Idiots" <BIG SNIPS> Today with scientific training methods, fabulous equipment, computer assistance, and detailed technical knowledge free for the asking, WE STILL HAVE IDIOTS! Don't call them divers no matter what their license says. Idiots who dive come from all training environments and all training organizations. Idiots even come from all areas of human endeavor. If idiots choose to exercise their right to ignore the rules when diving on their own, you can't blame the training organization that tried so hard to teach good rules. Anyone who has been around the world and kept their eyes opened sees good people everywhere and bad people everywhere. Good and bad is a function of the individual's free choice OR the perception of the observer and not automatically of any race, religion, nationality, government, occupation, education or diver training organization. You seriously damage your own credibility when you PUBLICALLY attack another person who dives (even if they are an idiot) and you render your own credibility null and void when you take on an entire diver training organization. If you freely advertise your own status as an intolerant, prejudiced, bigot on a medium like the internet you have to be AN INTERNET IDIOT concerning public etiquette and good manners. You have no credibility. You waste bandwidth. You in the diver chat networks and bulletin boards know who you are. Do the vast silent majority AND YOURSELVES a great favor. JOIN US! -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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