Re: Rattling the Cage
From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@h...>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 15:49:20 -0800
Subject: Re: Rattling the Cage
aebrain wrote:
>I think what it really comes down to is that the critic should know
>something about what he or she is criticising.
>
>Thus I don't consider myself to be qualified to criticise a team of
>skydivers if they have an accident, or a team of oilriggers if they
appear
>to cause a spill. I'll leave that to people who have at least jumped
out of
>an aeroplane once, or someone who's a mineral geologist with field
>experience. Because I know just enough about both areas to know that
>there's a lot more to it than meets the eye.
>
>It's not a moral or ethical issue, it's an issue of informed criticism
vs
>ignorant interference.
>
>There are few areas of human endeavour - be it warfare, medicine, law,
>engineering, or game design where unless you personally have some
>experience "in the field" of attempting it, then your opinion is most
>likely useless as a means of improving a situation.
Agreed.
2B^2
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