@ Gandhi: He chose sides in disputes under his policing all the time, most notably on the issue of Pakistan.
Anyhow, I found this essay much less persuasive, but I suspect that that is because I had already heard and disagreed with parts of the argument. a soulless automaton's idea for a test using blogs would be a much more unbiased test, although I'm not sure if you'd want to go through that much effort.
@ Gandalf: As you put it, fictional evidence.
@ Gandhi: He chose sides in disputes under his policing all the time, most notably on the issue of Pakistan.
Anyhow, I found this essay much less persuasive, but I suspect that that is because I had already heard and disagreed with parts of the argument. a soulless automaton's idea for a test using blogs would be a much more unbiased test, although I'm not sure if you'd want to go through that much effort.