Author: bobbob Date: Mar 26, 2007 04:35
>On Mar 25, 8:56 am, b...@ indigo.com (bob) wrote:
>So many people drive cars without knowing the >> basics of the infernal combustion engine,
>
>Equating the above with the below is just stretching too far. It
>assumes that we are drones, that everyone has the same knowledge base,
>innate talents, and, perhaps most importantly, desire to spend their
>time learning those things. As my husband sometimes notes about
>projects, that's why I earn money to pay someone else to do it.
If you have no idea of how something works, you could be paying much
more than you should. e.g: "Sorry, lady, the fletching rachet on your
humdinger is broken".
I think people abrogate responsibility for their actions when they
use technology they do not understand. And they pay for it
accordingly.
>don't expect everyone who can read a book to be able to critique "King
>Lear" in terms of the seven Aristotelian principles of Poetry.
Now who's "stretching it"?
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