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Re: YOU are responsible, even when YOU are not to blame
Subject:Re: YOU are responsible, even when YOU are not to blame From:Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 8 Apr 2003 06:42:32 -0700 (PDT)
<SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com> wrote ...
> So Andrew is now erecting and distorting his own strawmen. I say we leave him
> to it and move on to other topics 8^)
You'd be right about one thing. I should have said "inaccuracies are 100% the
direct *responsibility* of the authors and editors and 99% of the time it is
because the authors don't understand the material.
I stick to that contention, and nobody has presented me a good argument to see
otherwise. People have cited a lot of situations where they are unable to get
access to information, but nobody has really come up with a reasoned, logical
argument of how a document error was not the responsibility of the author.
People have posted personal attacks against me, made meta-arguments about how I
distorted their words, or bickered over how mistreated they are at work, but
not a single person has explained how they can simultaneously have
responsibility over a document and also not be responsible for the content
within.
So, we can fault (blame) me for imprecise language - which I myself have now
clarified.
And as a professional, I admit my mistakes, take responsibility for my words,
and avoid blaming others for distorting my words.
Andrew Plato
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