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Where does that stop though? I agree with you, but I don’t see how the basic observe-eval-withdraw loop ever terminates. Or put from a flip side… Building apps
by travisgriggs 5y ago
Where does that stop though? I agree with you, but I don’t see how the basic observe-eval-withdraw loop ever terminates.
Or put from a flip side… Building apps in highly democratic Norway just for Norwegians to use because they’re the best democracy (for example) doesn’t make enough money to feed my family. So why do anything at all?
- pigeonhole123 5y agoThe fact that you have to draw the line somewhere is not an argument for not drawing a line somewhere.
- travisgriggs 5y agoIndeed. Can you say that the parties involved do not have lines? Everyone has lines, they’re just not always visible. My point that the observe-eval-withdraw loop is difficult to terminate is not meant to argue we shouldn’t run the loop, but rather how difficult it is to code the withdraw conditions. As I tried to allude to in the second paragraph, you have to balance out the withdraw conditions with the pragmatic need to let the loop get some worthwhile work done.
- oliwarner 5y agoHow about using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a score sheet? 30 Articles there. I doubt there are many countries that score a perfect-30 but is Russia even in double-figures? I agree, there's some arbitrary hand-wringing to be done to work out where to draw the line, but doing nothing while you're paralysed trying to decide what pencil to use, seems just as bad as going along with the acts in the first place. https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...