From: Mark Measday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Is the game manager a member of the herd? If not, what is he? If he is,
>and minimizing the aggregate suffering of the herd involves culling,
>does he cull himself? Logically yes and actually no? Is this not the
>reappearance of what might be termed the fascist fallacy?
Did you understand the point? (Whether you like it or not is immaterial.)
Jay
>regards,
>
>mark measday
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>Jay Hanson wrote:
>
>> From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> >> I agree with you Eva. In a different world, with different
>> animals,
>> >> Democracy would be geat.
>> >
>> > IF NOT US, WHO?
>> > IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
>>
>> (a) The first step in successful problem solving is NOT having a
>> hallucination ("vision") as is the current fashion. (Gee, I am in
>> love with
>> the idea of Democracy, so let's do it.)
>>
>> (b) The first step in successful problem solving IS to analyze the
>> nature
>> of the problem (ask any engineer or systems analyst).
>>
>> (c) With respect to politics among animals (believe-it-or-not,
>> people are
>> animals), think of it as a "game management" problem. The goal of the
>> game
>> manager is to minimize the aggregate suffering of the herd.
>>
>> If one can simply accept a, b, and c above, then one will have made
>> more
>> progress towards a sustainable and just future than anyone else has
>> thus
>> far.
>>
>> Jay
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