Subj : Reality Check!
To   : Foxy Ferguson
From : George Vandervort
Date : Sun Sep 29 2002 08:59 am

Saturday September 28 2002 19:22, Foxy Ferguson wrote to Todd Sullivan:

 TS>> If an informal method already exists and works - peer
 TS>> pressure, for lack of a better term - why go to the trouble
 TS>> of having it documented?  There are more than enough "rules
 TS>> lawyers" as it is.
 FF>
 FF> Because humanity as a social animal cannot abide a lack of rules.
 FF> So they are created. Often at the expense of human dignity, loss
 FF> of personal liberty, and self-responsibility.
 FF>
 FF> If you (generic) drive up to an intersection at 2 am, with nary a
 FF> soul in sight anywhere, but there is this automated stop signal,
 FF> what generally happens? The human obeys the robot, and stops
 FF> until the robot signals that you are allowed to proceed (light
 FF> turns green), instead of exercising his judgemental facilities
 FF> and going on in spite of the condition of the traffic light.
 FF>
 FF> The propensity of the human species to willingly become slaves to
 FF> our own creations does sometimes amaze me. I occasionally wonder
 FF> if the ability to make judgements and act decisively upon them
 FF> may eventually become so atrophied it becomes lost to the species
 FF> as a whole. Should that ever happen, no doubt another species
 FF> will probably become dominant in this closed ecological system.
 FF>
 FF> -Foxy
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Hello Foxy!

Here's my Rules..

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George Vandervort - NET382 NPC

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