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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>
Precedence: bulk
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