KK> "Perfection" may be a lovely concept in philosophy or theology, but in
 KK> science or technology the only important idea is making it work.  No
 KK> Shuttle launch has ever achieved a "perfect" orbit, but all of them
 KK> recently have achieved orbits with errors that are trivially small.  The
 KK> difference between those two points is an important philosophical point
 KK> -- the difference between science and logic.
   You have quite accurately pointed up the fundamental mistake of allowing
myth to be mixed into science.  There is nothing at all wrong with the symbol
of perfection-imperfection when considered in its legitimate realm of myth.
It is, after all, some form of the myth that drives us to consider it
important to explore in the cosmos but the exploration itself demands science
for any degree of success.  "World peace" is an attractive myth and we
actually set in motion such machinery as the United Nations for attempting to
achieve as much of it as the human vessel will bear.  We would be foolish to
ignore the Saddam Husseins (or even certain leaders should they reach power 
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our own country) of this world in the pursuit of "world peace."  We can have
great experiences of something that might approach it but since we have no
experience of the reality of a world at peace it remains in the realm of myth
- desirable though it might be as a driving force in human order.  Political
science can be just as thoroughly ruined by myth as can physical science.  In
fact, Political Science IS crippled when certain experiences that the human
mind actually does have are arbitrarily lopped off in imagination in order to
formulate some pet ideology.
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
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