Hey its the inventor of scrabble =P

Shada, Movie Buff

> I thought about this some more, and the above is probably the
> reason why this issue is so polarized.
>
> If you subscribe to the "everyone should be free to play the
> way they like" ideology, then people who withhold help from
> twinkers are treating them differently based on how they play
> the game, and thus violating the ideology. So it isn't a
> double standard.
>
> If you subscribe to the "your actions should not detract from
> others' gameplay" ideology, then twinking detracts from your
> gameplay and you should withhold help from twinkers.
>
> Whichever ideology you subscribe to, your actions and feelings
> are self-consistent, and the other ideology's actions are a
> violation. They are mutually exclusive, and thus there can be
> no resolution or compromise between the two. The best we can
> hope for is coexistence without resorting to petty insults
> (twinker or jealousy).
>
> If we can agree to that, I'd like to end the twinking thread.
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim@...
>