On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:19:55PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On 05/20/2009 12:57 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> Another issue is that there are many people whom I totally agreed with on >> some issues but totally disagreed with on some others in the past. >> > This one is actually a feature of republican forms of government. > Debating why that is is likely off-topic for Fedora devel. However, > dealing with it is: > > No one who is elected by multiple people can represent all of the people > who voted for them all of the time. So the voter has to make a decision: > > 1) Do you want someone who does what the majority of people think is right? > 2) Do you want someone whose judgement you think is sound? > 3) Do you want someone who holds the same fundamental values as you do? > 4) Do you want someone that you, personally, have influence with? > > So, to prepare for the next election, it would be good to get some > questions posted that speak to the core values that the people hold and > to see whether, when they disagree with you, they are doing so with > rational arguments that you can understand even if you don't agree with > them. To wit: http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-questions-would-you-like-to-ask.html -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
