Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!cca!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Pirate captains of industry? Message-ID: <616@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Jun-83 19:27:00 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.616 Posted: Fri Jun 10 19:27:00 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jun-83 12:28:39 EDT References: <297@houti.UUCP> Organization: RLG Corp., Reston, VA Lines: 18 You say you would prefer a government of "laws and justice", rather than "men and politics". Who makes the laws and who administers justice? Women and men. I don't think it's possible to have a system where a fixed set of perfect laws were inscribed in stone, and perfectly impartial judges enforced and interpreted them (note the word "interpreted" - the only kind of law that needs no interpretation is one that describes every possible case); even were that possible, changing situations require changing laws. And when you have men and women making laws, you will have politics. And as for our finite environment - no, don't give up on progress, but don't organize society to assume that there will always be enough for everyone, either. After all, many resource scarcity problems are dealt with by substitution of other resources, but there may not be a good replacement or there may be other consequences of the substitution. Guy Harris RLG Corporation {seismo,mcnc,we13,brl-bmd,allegra}!rlgvax!guy