On 29/04/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 4/29/07 11:14 AM, John Lee at johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
as policy is descriptive, not prescriptive, use common sense when categorising, unless you feel the situation is too complex for your common sense to be right.
Perhaps the only solution here is to go back to the drawing board - blank the entire Policy Page, and start all over again.
And here we come to the fundamental problem. It's all very well to say we need to redevelop the category system, to say that the system is broken and failing and so on, but in order to do this we need to *decide what categories are*.
We have yet to manage this. Everyone brings their own conceptions to the table; we regularly get complaints about the stupidity and wastefulness of the system, which are fundamentally just "my preferred concept of what this system is is not being used".
We need to sort this out before we go any further - and the problem is that both sides are entirely convinced that theirs is the self-evident only way to work.