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I don't agree with that. You are just as likely to learn something about yourself if you have a thought and keep it to yourself as you are by saying it out loud.

There is nothing wrong with cultivating the self-discipline it takes to know what to say and when to say it. We've had this type of discussion several times before here at TFP - debating whether every thought that pops into your head is a golden nugget of truth that needs to be shared with the world. To me it seems like an immature and rather egotistical sense of entitlement and to be quite honest (here I am measuring and then saying what I think) most of the people I have known who argue for saying everything they think without sparing propriety and feelings and diplomacy tend to be assholes with an inflated sense of their own importance. Not saying that anyone here at TFP right now (and certainly no one on this thread) seems that way to me, quite the contrary. I do defend the practice of diplomacy as a rule but realize that there will always be exceptions, extraordinary circumstances that make diplomacy difficult and sometimes even not desirable.

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