On 17/04/2015 13:52, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 17 April 2015 12:26:54 UTC+1, Nightjar wrote:
On 17/04/2015 12:04, whisky-dave wrote:
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if someone is offering to help you, you rarely ask for evidence, especailly when you see others offering are not what you want.


I would think that is exactly when you most need evidence of their good
intent.

No. If yuo wake up on a pavement after an accident or any sort and someone is helping you, do you ask them for evidence they are helping you ?
If a women is raped on teh street and someone comes to help doe sthe women have to ask for evuidence that that person won't rape her NO of course not.
But of course it does happen, but not expected...

You are stretching the analogy too far. You don't have to take split
second decisions about politicians. You can spend years investigating
them, if you want.


....
Things ain't
what they used to be has been a familiar, but usually mistaken, cry down
the ages.

But it's not always so mistaken is it.

Far more often than not.


--
Colin Bignell