Carcharoth wrote:
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
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What works is this:
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Want to focus on one.
- people show respect for the policy by "staying on the fairway", not
gaming it at the margins;
This only works if the policy is written sufficiently well to allow for the existence of a broad fairway as opposed to a narrow one. There will always be those who want to narrow the fairway and constrain people into a set definition. If the margins are brought in too close, it becomes too easy to accuse people of gaming the margins. If the fairway is too broad, then too much slips through. Even if people agree on where the central point should be, what should be done when people disagree on how broad the fairway should be?
Dispute resolution. The existence of areas where reasonable people might disagree doesn't vitiate policies, it just means that there is room for concrete discussion with the aim of clarification.
Charles