Re: Part 2: System Structure

[Bas Wijnen]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:47:44AM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> >Competitions and games are two very different things.
> 
> Not really. I would say that the terms are pretty much orthogonal.

Eh, I think "two terms are orthogonal" is a pretty accurate definition for
"two terms describe very different things". ;-)

> The fact that people may get addicted to something does not mean we
> should not support it. People can get addicted to wide variety of
> things including sweets, cocolade, coffee, work, all kinds of games
> (computer or not), adrenaline sports, ...
> 
> Banning all such things would be very restrictive and ineffective.
> There are many drugs that are actually banned, and people still get
> addicted to them. Yet people who would make good use of them cannot do
> so legally.

This argument only holds if there are indeed good uses.  I tend to agree with
you that there are, but I think Marcus doesn't.

Thanks,
Bas

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