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Re: Candidate questions/musings



On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:33:45AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Your arguments were wrong because people have lots of trouble
> understanding what the Social Contract says in so many words.

People have lots of trouble understanding many other things, too.
Included in the set of things that people have trouble understanding
are people, computers, and just about everything else.

Anyways, the lack of some specific problem in the social contract doesn't
mean that there is no room for improvement.

> An excellent example was your own words, but it doesn't matter who said
> it--the argument you made that was wrong was that the social contract
> is doing just fine.  

This argument is almost completely free of any meaning (change all the
nouns, and it doesn't seem to make particularly more or less sense).

-- 
Raul



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