04-05-2005, 12:21 PM
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Southern charmer
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: At the Great Altar of Passive Entertainment
Posts: 7,033
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Peter Jennings
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Originally posted by robustpuppy
It's not rational, but a lot of people do that. (See, e.g., a number of my relatives.) I think for a lot of people, particularly people as intelligent as Peter Jennings, they know the truth, but don't want to face it yet, because that knowledge (or confirmation) changes everything for the worse. You become a sick person, rather than just yourself.
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