>>-----Original Message----- >>From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >>There is no adequate label for people like me. >> Smith, Matthew P -CONT(DYN) wrote: > HA! > > I like that. That is, honestly, one of the best retorts I've ever heard. > No sarcasm, that really is golden.
I would like to extend it to "There is no adequate label for people". People are so quick to label other people, just because it is so convenient to put them in a box and be able to classify them by the label [1]. It leaves you with a few labels and a set of predefined opinions, which is way easier as having to evaluate the person and his opinion each time. But people and their opinions are way to complex to label them with just a left-to-right scale in politics. Somebody already mentioned a while back that every political scale should have at least 2 dimensions, one on how much influence the government should have into people's private live, and one on how much influence the government should have on the division of wealth. But I think that to be resonably accurate many more dimensions should be added. Like how much the government should protect the environment, how democratic the government should be etc. etc. etc. The problem with this naturally is that with every new dimension the amnount of labels multiplies, and when the system becomes usefull to describe peoples opinions the amount of labels is totally out of control and the whole point of labels is gone. Jochem [1] I am labelling people here too. Did you notice how natural that sounds? -- Everybody is entitled to my opinion. ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
