Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site spp2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!jhull From: jhull@spp2.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Libertarianism: Anarchism, Schools, Defense, Society Message-ID: <342@spp2.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 16:52:57 EST Article-I.D.: spp2.342 Posted: Tue Jan 8 16:52:57 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:32:35 EST References: <399@ptsfa.UUCP> <2207@randvax.UUCP> Reply-To: jhull@spp2.UUCP (Jeff Hull) Distribution: net Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach CA Lines: 26 Summary: In article <2207@randvax.UUCP> edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall) writes: >... >What J. Bashinski seems to be arguing is that since good is hard to >quantify, and since the good of the ``many'' is even harder to quantify, >that we should forget about ever considering it at all. Excuse me, but >that's a coward's line of reasoning (or perhaps that of someone so >caught up in the quantization of the world as to not see that much of >it is not quantifiable).... > > -Ed Hall On the topic of analysis and quantifying things, Albert Einstein (you remember him. One of those people who DID understand this world better than the rest of us :-) ) said, "Insofar as mathematics is precise, it does not describe the (real) world. Insofar as mathematics describes the world, it is not precise." I think there is a lesson in there ... somewhere. -- Blessed Be, Jeff Hull ihnp4!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!jhull 13817 Yukon Ave. Hawthorne, CA 90250