I Quit!Scaryduck writes, "I celebrated my last day on my paper round by giving everybody next door's paper, and the house at the end 16 copies of the Maidenhead Advertiser. And I kept the delivery bag. That certainly showed 'em."
What have you flounced out of? Did it have the impact you intended? What made you quit in the first place?
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chthonic, Thu 22 May 2008, 12:15)
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@PJMThe problem with PR is that it still works on the assumption that the majority is correct simply by virtue of being the majority. I simply can't see why the numbers should be important, though.
Given some question Q in respect of which one person is correct and 400 are wrong but in agreement with each other, oughtn't the correctness of the one trump the mistake of the majority.
Clearly, that's formalistic, since the problem is often what counts as the "correct" solution. But, that being the case, it's recognised experts to whom we should turn - not the half-baked reckonings of the quarter-informed.
I'd love to share a Millian optimism about the benefits of debate in fumbling towards answers - but that's only really reliable when everyone is committed to disinterested argument and accepting the conclusion of the argument, whatever it may be. That simply doesn't happen.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 29 May 2008, 12:43,
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