From: TURTLE              
To: DRAGONFLY           
Subject: Compro--huh?   
Date & Time: 05/09/91 21:34:07
Message Number 16695

>Hope the two of you reach a good compromize.
 
"Compromise." (Heh, heh, heh.) That reminds me in an offhand way though
of an article by Douglas Hofstadter about compromise; it's not always
the appropriate solution to a problem. If Jimmy and Sammy are arguing
about dividing a cake, with Jimmy saying he wants half of it and Sammy
demanding all of it, a rational person would not say, "Okay, now you
two compromise. Jimmy can have one-third of it, and Sammy can have two-
thirds." It's dangerous to assume that compromise is the solution to a
problem you don't have any direct knowledge of; people have an annoying
habit of believing justice must lie halfway between two opposing points
of view, and in reality t'ain't always so.