🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:39:22 -0700, jedi@dementia.mishnet () wrote:

>On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 19:55:44 GMT, msissom@dnaent.com <msissom@dnaent.com> wrote:
>>
>>At least the BB where I ususally shop has a very good return policy.
>>It also has nothing to do with the signs posted. They are much more
>>concerned with having happy customers than having a rigid policy
>>enforced. I assume that this state exists because the store has
>>not yet had their goodwill exploited by thieves.
>
>	It's not a matter goodwill but rather a matter of 
>	consumer protection law in a domain where the
>	declaration that only winning matters is used
>	as an excuse for all sorts of tort inducing 
>	activity. 
>
>	The real thieves are those who would lie to 
>	the unwarry so that their own legal obligations
>	could be avoided.

The unwarry are there for exploitation, else wariness would
not be a survival feature. If we make the world safe for
imbeciles, then there will be no incentive for genius.

>Empowerment implies having the power to do for yourself 
>what needs done and the necessary confidence to try.            |||

It also implies that as empowered, I am not expecting others
to think for me.

>Crutches do not bring empowerment; they only encourage         / | \
>the opposite.

Exactly, stand on your own or count on your friends to help
you, but don't try to obligate me, a stranger, into helping
you.

>You are the thinking machine & quite capapble 
>of much more than you may realize.

Your .sig does not seem to conform to the ideas expressed in your
post.