David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> writes: >> Your baseline is wrong. You can always pick two points A and B and >> claim a positive difference. If somebody starts beating you, and then >> stops, you can claim that the stopping is a positive difference and >> that you are therefore victorious. This is not how common sense works. ... >Take a look at environmental issues. If we start from blowing out our >natural ressources at a rate of 1000000 times it took to build them up, >then it is hailed as a great victory if we manage to reach consensus to >reduce this to 950000 times in 20 years...
Unless you are talking about somebody's specific legal rights being violated, there is no useful analogy here. -- Rahul http://rahul.rahul.net/ _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
