LMS wrote:
This is a bit off the topic, but it came up and I
can't let it pass. KQ
said recently that Cunctator is the project's *conscience*. Perhaps KQ
was just trying to be nice, but I think that is actually unfair to the
rest of us, who like to think we have a principled approach to the
project
as well. It also accords Cunc respect as somehow *the*
representative of
a *particularly* moral point of view, to whom the rest of us ought to pay
special heed--I disagree with that and I enjoin you not to accord *any*
one person such special respect. (I'm not sure KQ meant to imply all
this
by "conscience of the project," and I also
doubt, in his reasonableness
and modesty, that Cunc would reject the description when cashed out as I
have done, but I just want this to be clear.)
eh, well, no I didn't mean all that, though I guess it was all implied
by my sloppy writing. :-) All I meant was that Cunc, of all of us,
seems most concerned with abuses of authority. I wouldn't like to
appoint anyone an 'authority' on anything, and certainly I like to
think of people as generally principled.
kq