First impressions are important, but do you feel that if it is possible, perhaps one could or should try to over look an initially...questionable one?

Well, OK…for example, usually a person who has poor spelling and grammatical skills, along with sentence structure issues is usually a person that is hard to reason and communicate with….it’s a natural, knee-jerk reaction, because usually it’s true. But once in a while, if you give them a chance, you could find a real diamond in the rough——a really, really decent and good person who actually has viewpoints and experiences that are worth listening to—that we may not be familiar with at all, and whom one can learn from, even if we have to ask a couple of questions here and there to clarify what they’re trying to share with us. So…don’t we all lose if we off-hand just turn someone like that away at the gate, without giving them a chance? Further, the ones that aren’t worth “saving” usually blow themselves out all by themselves, and really quickly, without any help from us…..