Virtual Liability and Lethal Arguments
blancw at pylon.com
blancw at pylon.com
Mon Sep 19 23:27:21 PDT 1994
Responding to msg by Jim Hart:
>What about liability of non designers for failing to
>make changes? What about liability of people who use
>fallacious moralistic arguments and use coercion to
>stop changes?
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You don't really have a problem with that, do you? :>)
There are no expectations placed on non-designers to come up
with anything of any practical use to society, therefore they
have no responsibility or liability, as no one takes them very
seriously.
People who put up blocks to progress and improvement (not
merely 'changes' per se) are suffering from a sense of loss of
control over their existence, and should be sent to a hospital
to recuperate from their psychic wounds. (Actually, I think
that this wouldn't become such a big problem if, for one thing,
everyone had a clear understanding & appreciation of the
concept of "property", what that constitutes, and what that
means in terms of the liberty to affect things in the world
around us.)
Blanc
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