Re: [spoon-discuss] societies and corporations discussion

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/21/02 at 8:51 PM Baron von Skippy wrote:

>>This isn't to say that a given rule is totally, inherently bad because
>>either a given single segment of it is bad or because someone manages to
>>use it for a purpose other than that for which it was intended.  That a
>>smashed beer bottle is a deadly weapon doesn't necessarily mean beer
>>bottles as a whole need re-engineering.
>>
>>There is therefore some separation between a rule and its use.  A mess
>can
>>be caused by a flaw in a rule, or the interaction of multiple rules, but
>>that doesn't mean the rule itself is necessarily a mess.  The rule may be
>>generally functional, generally well-formed, with relatively tiny flaws
>>that can be magnified a hundredfold in actual use.
>-*grin* Or two thousand and fifty fold.-
>>
>>To declare a mess to be a mess, and to hold the person who made the mess
>>responsible for it, is one thing.  To declare a rule to be as big a mess
>as
>>the mess made through the exploitation of a flaw in the rule is another.
>>The person or persons responsible for the creation of said rule may take
>>some measure of offense at the suggestion that the product of their
>effort
>>was a total mess simply because someone managed to beat the game over the
>>head with it.
>-Are we still talking about the beer bottle here?-

Actually, in this particular paragraph, I had small expensive statuary in mind.

						Glotmorf


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