In a message dated 4/29/2008 11:52:40 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, scs@eskimo.com writes:
There is unquestionably a huge tension between "don't hurt people" and several of our other core policies.
[I should have said "several of our core policies".]
Will Johnson replies:
We have no policy "don't hurt people".
Of course not. It's "just" a goal. (And of course here we're most concerned with innocent people.)
But: a goal is not meaningless merely because it's not hard policy -- nor do hard policies override other concerns merely because they're hard policy. It's... a tension.