Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Kastrup wrote:
> > I think there is a good bit of psychology involved there because I
> > believe you can not generally come to that conclusion without a
> > certain view of how people decide what to do.
>
> I am not interested in applying psychology to feel comfortable with an
> undesirable situation.  That may be fine as long as the situation can't
> be changed.

I can't understand why you are not. Don't you think it can help to make 
things better?

> > What is propably less well know is that psychological experiments and
> > thinking points to that people who are what they call authoritarian in
> > their view of other people more often believe that pressure is the
> > (only) way to get people to do things.
> >
> > Perhaps it is easy to be lead to the conclusion that pressure is
> > necessary. For some actions it is but are the actions and thinking we
> > want really of this type?
>
> If you consider it as _pressure_ if I voice my opinion, and want to
> silence me,

I do not think so. I wonder why you get that impression. Can you please 
tell me?

> So we might as well stop.  The world will become neither simpler nor
> more complex by us agreeing or disagreeing.

Yes, but I would be glad if you answered the question above (either here 
or private). I am interested in your answers because I think they matters.