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From: miket@brspyr1.brs.com (Mike Trout)
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Subject: Re: Caller ID Privacy Question
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Date: 18 Aug 89 17:09:25 GMT
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In article , bnick%aucis.UUCP@mailgw.
cc.umich.edu (Bill Nickless) writes:

> If Abner Doubleday had decided on a pentagon shape instead of a diamond shape
> (and it had caught on!) do you think major league baseball would reshape
> their playing fields because someone thought it was better to have three
> bases and a home plate?  No.  It would require adjustments in expectations
> from coaches, players, talent coaches, and everyone.

This is a minor quibble, but Abner Doubleday did not decide on a diamond shape,
nor did he have very much to do with the design and development of baseball.
Baseball as we know it evolved from cricket, rounders, and the New York Game,
and took its basic present form before Doubleday began publicizing it.  A
pentagon shape (or any other major difference) would result in such a
drastically different game that it's hard to imagine its survival.

> In the case of the battered women's shelter, they simply need to know that
> when the call is placed to the alleged batterer, he is being notified of
> where the call is originating.  Simple solution: have a public agency such
> as the police place the call.  No invasion of privacy, no danger to the
> bettered women.  Just a *different* way of looking at things.

Sounds good, but you're asking a battered woman--who has been through an event
of unimaginable trauma--to behave rationally and with logic.  This requires her
to ASK the police or ASK the shelter to ask the police to make the call for
her.  It's just as likely that in her emotional turmoil, she'll just go and
make the call without thinking about potential consequences.  She HAS been
married to (or living with) this jerk for some time, and regardless of how much
she may fear or loathe him, she also has deep within her some positive feelings
for him.  If there are children involved, the psychological entanglements get
even messier.  Remember--"when dealing with human beings, a certain amount of
nonsense is inevitable."

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