Quote Originally Posted by eugmac View Post
Bill Gates is a good guy, on the other hand, from what I can see.
See this is sort of an example of what I'm talking about. You cite Bill Gates as being a good guy, though qualify it by saying "from what I can see", implying it may not be true.

Of course, there isn't anything wrong with saying that. But I highly doubt that if you had a comparable amount of (positive) information about another individual, say some scientist or musician or what have you, that in talking about their personality you would go out of your way to say "from what I can see". Essentially implying that they might be a sociopath, you just haven't seen anything to prove that yet.