From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 00:11:10 MDT
-->Harvey Newstrom
> I am trying to point out to people that they can't trust companies like
> Kazaa to tell the truth. They must do their homework and find out what
> is really going on. They need to educate themselves so they are not
> taken in by these frauds.
Yes, yes, same page.
> How you can imagine that I am against protecting oneself, against taking
> personal responsibility, against do one's homework, or against being
> skeptical of a vendor's claims is beyond me. I have been doing my best
> to encourage the exact opposite.
I wasn't pointing the finger at you so much as waving it wildly in the
general direction of the list in between bouts of frustration with my
employees...but anyway, somehow I had formulated the idea that you supported
no-fault-to-the-defrauded and all-blame-to-the-defrauders concepts. Meme
leakage from other list comments and my overtaxed brain, no doubt; I
appreciate the clarification.
Actually, to ramble some more, it seems to me that there has come into bring
an odd concept that "blame" is a single entity associated with each event,
and it therefore has to be divided between participants in some zero-sum
way.
----------- -----------
| BLAME |________ | DISCRETE |
| OBJECT | | EVENT |
----------- -----------
(Yes, I know, but it's either this or actually write the FIB that's staring
me in the face).
Whereas this is really just a hallucination that you subscribe to or not.
(Ignoring the definition of fraud in the following:) the defrauded has
responsibility for their actions in being taken in, the defrauder bears
responsibility for the actions of defrauding people. Each fraud isn't even a
single event, and blame is a societal thing anyway.
I could go on, but probably shouldn't.
Reason
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