I'm sure I've posted this already, but I can't see it, so apologies if this is a double post.
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Originally Posted by Humble Janitor
I tend to ignore such drivel and focus on the bigger message at hand.
I don't care about David's supposed ego. I *DO* care about the message he's trying to convey.
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Well like I say, there's no attack in my saying this, and I forgive him, but it's another thing entirely to ignore it. Being a big head makes people overstate the case all the time. When it's something like telling everyone that a documentary is going to be all about you, it's easily mitigated, in that everyone gets to see the documentary and finds out that wasn't true. When it's something like saying - and this is hypothetical here - "this witness said things that ENTIRELY corroborated my theories", it's another thing, because we might not be able to check that witnesses testimony ourselves. If we know that he tends to overstate things, if doing so boosts his self image, we need to temper the weighting of such statements with that knowledge.
Again, it's not evil, it's just pertinent.