At 03:19 PM 1/30/2002 -0600, Adrian Jadic wrote: >I think you exaggerate when comparing metrication with killing someone. Or >something.
I was, which was why I called my analogy "trite." >I don't see any way in which it will kill individual freedom. The civilized >society is based on a universal acceptance of a set of rules of behavior. >W&M is part of it. I *promised* not to keep this up, but, one more time briefly: individual freedom means I can do what I want with my own property (barring fraud or force). That means if I want to set up a stand and try to sell my bananas by the pound, I can do so, and you nor anyone else nor the men in blue can stop me. I am hurting no one, and I cannot force anyone to purchase them. That is individual freedom. Mandated metric takes it away (as the guy in England has found out). If we all define our own meter, then we open the gates to fraud, which is something government *should* work to prevent. Selling by the pound is not fraud. Selling a pound (or kilogram) that is a different size than the "standard" is. Jim Elwell
