Yes: my great-great-aunt was always very proud of the fact that her brains allowed her to pass the leaving exam a year early, and go and work in the mill - because she was the eldest child, her mother was dead, and they needed the money.
Bunter's a good comparison, and illustrates the problem nicely.
but do the posters say to themselves “I mustn’t make judgements; she could be a time-traveller” before making likely assumptions about people in times of stress.
That could lead to all sorts of interesting consequences (particularly 'interesting' in the apocryphal Chinese sense...)
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Re: We can always blame Maisie Dobbs
Date: 2007-06-04 10:21 pm (UTC)Bunter's a good comparison, and illustrates the problem nicely.
but do the posters say to themselves “I mustn’t make judgements; she could be a time-traveller” before making likely assumptions about people in times of stress.
That could lead to all sorts of interesting consequences (particularly 'interesting' in the apocryphal Chinese sense...)