Re: [IFWP] Singapore Update

[Kent Crispin]

On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 08:21:09AM +0000, Karl Auerbach wrote:
> 
> > Precisely the same thing could be said about *any* measure designed 
> > to protect a minority -- a minority is a special interest, by 
> > definition.
> 
> For any "constituency" there is an opposite.

This is a metaphysical claim.  It has no relation to reality.  The 
reality is that political relationships are very much more 
complicated. 

[...]

> And yet all those latter constituencies are being ignorred and submerged
> by the various proposals.

That's because they are theoretical constructs, not realities.  It's 
entertaining to play with theoretical constructs -- I do it all the 
time myself -- but at some point you have to return to the 
engineering point of view, and work with the actual material 
available.

-- 
Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
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