On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 13:09 -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > From that standpoint then, limiting the freedom of decision or action to > only those decisions or acts that do not bring negative consequences > upon other persons is socially positive.
I actually would not go that far. But I agree with the spirit. I would say that limiting the freedom of decision or action to those that maintain a reasonable balance between self-benefits and consequences to others is socially positive. The challenge is to work out where the balance should be. I do not have a neatly packaged answer, but I do feel that current computational systems place the balance point way too far in favor of self-benefits, and essentially ignore consequences to others. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list L4-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
