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- From: bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:28:48 GMT
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- In article <8330@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan5.164051.3929@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >>Society cannt decide about anything. Only humans can have the ability
- >>to decide.
- >
- >One of the ground rules of any society is that decisions made by whatever
- >means that society has for reaching decisions are decisions of the whole
- >society.
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- Society is merely a cognitive construct of humans to refer to a large
- number of people living togather. Obviously your statement is wrong,
- because if all decisions of law makers were like decisions of all the
- people in a society there would not be a need for punishment as everybody
- would comply voluntarily.
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- >In American society (the one, after all, whose rules/laws MS must
- >operate under), decisions made by the lawmaking bodies are, by definition,
- >decisions of society.
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- Again, society is _human_ cognitive facility, it does not exist in
- the physical world. To elevate society from a helpful cognitive means
- to an arbitrar of justice or practicality is leap of faith.
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- >>A better statement is that the _majority_ of individuals voted for
- >>a certain law, and are imposing their will on the minority that
- >>disagree. That does not make a law in any way more fair or practical.
- >
- >This is an argument against a majority-rule democracy. It holds little water,
- >however, unless you can somehow provide a better solution.
- >
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- It was not an argument for or against the rule of the majority. It
- was an argument against elevating the majority as an arbitrar of justice
- and practicality.
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- Actually I dont understand why you argue with that. How would you
- react to a statement like "The computer-user community has decided
- that Windows is better than OS/2", or even "Dos is better than OS/2" ,
- because more people bought Windows or DOS ?
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- It is amusing when a group of people who use an OS that is much less
- prevalent than the competing one are suddenly elevating the decision
- of the majority into an arbitrar of practicality.
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