I tend to find that telling people even such a hint of what one might feel serves soley to give them amunition against you. And thusly I chose to tell such things only to people who I either am happy to use it against me or trust that they won't. That is a vanishingly small set compared to 'people I talk to in the pub'.
If I can take the topic of ammunition and use a geeky metaphor ;)
I don't like the Minbari way of showing trust, approaching with gun ports open so people can see their weapons and that they are not using them therefore they can be trusted.
I prefer, after a while, the equivalent to giving someone the initiation code to your self-destruct sequence, then if they use it you know you can't trust them. Of course, you don't have to be giving them your real self-destruct code...
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Re: No - not the deep dark secrets...
Date: 2007-01-11 04:19 pm (UTC)Re: No - not the deep dark secrets...
Date: 2007-01-11 05:10 pm (UTC)Re: No - not the deep dark secrets...
Date: 2007-01-11 05:51 pm (UTC)I don't like the Minbari way of showing trust, approaching with gun ports open so people can see their weapons and that they are not using them therefore they can be trusted.
I prefer, after a while, the equivalent to giving someone the initiation code to your self-destruct sequence, then if they use it you know you can't trust them. Of course, you don't have to be giving them your real self-destruct code...