Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 06:32:42 -0000 From: fractor@swlink.net Subject: [lpaz-discuss] John Wilde's Response to "Status" To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: lpaz-discuss@yahoogroups.com
John, I disagree 100%
In my mind, there is never a dichotomy or divergence between what's fair and what's just.
You claim that the ALP can not compromise, even if to do so would be "fair". I don't agree that doing the fair thing - the just thing - is a compromise at all. Or maybe what I heard was that if the ALP is threatened by potential law suits, then it's okay to be "unfair".
But isn't that the argument of those in ALP, Inc. or LPUS - that if we're threatened (by not being able to be more successful), it's okay to compromise?
Well, of course, your way out of it is to merely proclaim that whatever course of action you choose is the only way that doesn't involve compromise of our principles - regardless of the fairness of the results.
But then, your argument is that you have ath