From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Nov 16 1999 - 03:00:08 MST
"J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com> writes:
> From: Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>
> > ...if you like blue
> >and I like green, which color do we paint the building in? We have to
> >do politics to resolve that dispute, be it a compromise or something
> >else.
>
> Leave it to the decision making authority/architect.
> Non-politicians decide what colors to paint buildings everyday.
Actually, I would consider that politics. The architect will have to
balance the wishes of the neighbours, the owners of the building, his
own aesthetic views, costs and everything else; I would consider that
a (small) political decision. As I see it, politics is about making
decisions together with other people, acting in the public sphere.
> Authority belongs to the one who best answers those who question authority.
A good heuristic.
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