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rather than a senior colleague telling a junior colleague to do something "because I say so" Sure. Agree 1,000% in this specific example. There are a lot

rather than a senior colleague telling a junior colleague to do something "because I say so" Sure. Agree 1,000% in this specific example. There are a lot of other contexts where it seems wildly impractical. Should Linus have explain to you and negotiate your right to be (or not) a Linux kernel committer? Should a crossing guard at an intersection negotiate with every car? Should an air traffic controller negotiate and explain with every given aircraft? Okay, maybe we could treat the role of ATC as an education issue during pilot training and certification, so nobody has to "blindly" obey. But what if I don't want to obey even in an informed way? What if I think the certification process sucks? Why submit to the FAA's authority in the first place? They don't own the sky! Ideally, we should all have individualized speed limits on roadways, too, based on our skill, the weather conditions, and the vehicle we're driving at the moment. And yet we recognize that this is just sort of impractical. There are a lot of issues with negotiation that get awfully intractable if we scale them up past much more than two people.

fallingknife 3y ago
Do we recognize that as impractical? The Autobahn seems to work fine on that model.
- JohnBooty 3y ago
  You will perhaps be surprised to know that there is a speed limit on the autobahn. There is a minimum speed limit and a strict set of laws governing your driving behavior. So no, you don’t get to pick your own specially negotiated arbitrary driving speed or negotiate your own special individual set of driving laws. German driving requirements (exams, licensing, etc) are said to be quite strict as well relative to many other countries and again, I am not aware of any part of this process where you are permitted to set your own personalized driving laws (but only if you have deemed your assigned personalized negotiator to be worthy of that authority) In short, a spectacularly poor choice of example (on multiple axes) to illustrate your point. If it’s any consolation this is a common mistake. I suspect people in Germany are often amused and baffled by others’ tendency to point to the Autobahn as some sort of lassiez-faire libertarian “do whatever you want” zone.

fallingknife 3y ago

Do we recognize that as impractical? The Autobahn seems to work fine on that model.

JohnBooty 3y ago
You will perhaps be surprised to know that there is a speed limit on the autobahn. There is a minimum speed limit and a strict set of laws governing your driving behavior. So no, you don’t get to pick your own specially negotiated arbitrary driving speed or negotiate your own special individual set of driving laws. German driving requirements (exams, licensing, etc) are said to be quite strict as well relative to many other countries and again, I am not aware of any part of this process where you are permitted to set your own personalized driving laws (but only if you have deemed your assigned personalized negotiator to be worthy of that authority) In short, a spectacularly poor choice of example (on multiple axes) to illustrate your point. If it’s any consolation this is a common mistake. I suspect people in Germany are often amused and baffled by others’ tendency to point to the Autobahn as some sort of lassiez-faire libertarian “do whatever you want” zone.