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- Subject: Re: URGENT: Anarchy & VOTING
- Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 12:52:34 +1000
- From: Warwick Allison <warwick@cs.uq.oz.au>
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- Michel Forget wrote:
-
- >While reading the list, I have come to one definite conclusion. We need
- >to vote on the various proposals before the list degenerates into endless
- >arguing.
-
- Democracy without public access media is mob rule.
-
- ie. if people are not given a chance to express and justify their opinions,
- then voteing finds the most popular opinion rather than the most
- reasonable opinion.
-
- eg. My gut reaction to ^A would be `Get rid of it!', but after discussion,
- I see that the cute-but-bad Apple highlight handling (replace by key)
- is the problem, not ^A. In particular, Annius' comment of the Apple
- model being reasonable up until the highlight crosses lines illustrated
- this point.
-
- --
- Warwick
-