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 whatI 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 to be unfair to be just. If the rule of law requires that, why should we hold the rule of law sacred? And which law - Title 16? (You obviously don't believe in following that law!)
Sometimes, doing the right thing involves taking risks. But of course in your mind it's better to do the wrong thing - the safe thing - and dress it up as principle.
In fact, I don't think it would have involved any risk at all to hear Jason out - give him his day in court, if you will. Or even, as someone suggested a while back, to explain in detail to the rest of us unenlightened ones exactly how Jason's membership in the ALP (recognized political party) and the ALP, Inc. (whatever it is) could be used against - whom?
And, finally, I again raise the question of openness - or would that involve a compromise of principles, too?
John Kannarr
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