[Re: Microsoft Trial Judge Based His Break-Up "Remedy" On Flawed Theory, Not Facts]
Jim Choate
ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Thu Mar 1 05:27:36 PST 2001
On 28 Feb 2001, LUIS VILDOSOLA wrote:
> It's all in the timing.
Right and wrong have timing? I think not.
> If the censors are the last to judge,
Censors are the first to judge. 'a priori' effectively means 'before'.
> they self proclaim the right to punish
> or take corrective action.
What censor ever took a self-proclaimed right to censor and actually got
away with it? You cast censorship as if it were a private/personal act
when in fact it's a societal act, many against one. If it's couched in
anything it's a mis-applied concept of self-defence.
> So justice is held in a pyramid scheme
> where those not fortunate or not able to be
> on top are by definition the only liable to
> be judged by terrestrial powers.
That's not justice, that human nature. Don't have a clue how we got into
talking about space aliens (ie terrestrial powers).
Are you mean transcendental as in religious?
> The odd thing about this is judgments
> are punitive in nature, so those at the bottom
> slip further down; distancing the judging party
> from the judged. Kind of a reinforcing cycle.
????
> Can you think of mechanisms to trigger this cycle Jim?
I'm not sure what 'cycle' you mean.
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