At 12:12 AM 1/31/2002 +0000, Stephen Davis wrote: >How far do you take individual freedom?? Would you advocate agree to an >opt-out scheme whereas you can pick and choose what things you want to >have your tax dollars spent upon??
I would love to engage in this discussion -- no one loves more spending hours at a computer expressing their opinion more than I do. However, I have come to the conclusion that (a) these long debates about political philosophy vis-à-vis metrication are not particularly effective in helping us metricate, and (b) none of us is going to change the others' minds about some of these philosophical issues. So, Stephen, I appreciate your sincere and civil response and questions, and maybe we can sit down over a pint ... er, half liter ... some day and debate these issues, but I am going to refrain at this time. Jim Elwell
