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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
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Posted: Fri Jun 10 19:27:00 1983
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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