Bexx and Dave: I think both of you make some excellent points here. Most people would probably agree that IM is limited compared to seeing people face to face, but it's also interesting how much we depend on not just *what* people say but *how* they say and what they *do* while saying it. Stuff we usually don't notice but which seems a lot more obvious once we're forced to communicate without it.

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith