On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected] > wrote:
> Mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley: > > "The policeman isn't there to create disorder; > the policeman is there to preserve disorder." > > > Sorry, couldn't resist. ;-D > I've always loved that quote. Me, I want neither to create disorder nor to preserve disorder. It's not the nature of disorder to need creating or preserving. Creating and preserving order is a much harder challenge. Obviously, creativity needs freedom and diversity, but it also needs rules. Striking the right balance between freedom and rules is especially hard, but if the recent debate leads people to reflecting on what a better balance is, that's a good result, even if people remain (understandably) unhappy with certain particular actions that gave rise to the debate. I know a lot of people suppose that the attack from Fox is the trigger for discussion of review of Commons policy, but in fact Commons policy has been subject to ongoing review and discussion for some time now, as FloNight has mentioned. Fox's maliciousness, and Jimmy's unilateral response to it, may have added some urgency to the discussion, but I think the discussion needs to happen. --Mike _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
