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Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Wed Oct 8 15:53:42 PDT 2008


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Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> I'll go further than that.
> 
> To an extent, I agree with Phil -- but only to an extent.
> 
> We need to separate two kinds of stupidity: the stupidity that's born of
> a momentary braino, and the stupidity that comes from laziness.

I don't consider the former stupidity.  I consider it a momentary lapse
of attention.

> Technology can mitigate the occasional routine human error.  It cannot
> mitigate the systemic problem of people who want to remain ignorant and
> let the computer do it all for them.

Exactly.  People make mistakes, and it's only reasonable to try to catch
the mistakes where possible.  But it's not productive to try to create a
world safe for people who simply go through their lives never thinking
before they act.


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  Phil Stracchino, CDK#2     DoD#299792458     ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355
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