At 10:21 AM 8/16/2002 -0700, Nytemuse wrote: >On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Steven Brust wrote: > > At 10:02 AM 8/16/2002 -0400, Starshadw at aol.com wrote: > > >Who gets to decide what is a good change and what is a bad change?? > > Excellent question! > > My own answer is: anyone who cares enough to argue about it. > >I think this kind of answers itself, as "good" and "bad" are rather >subjective and/or personal terms. By which I mean; what _I_ think is good >may be bad to Mr. X down the street. Well, sure. But sometimes we can find objective criteria that determine whether we react to something as "good" or "bad." This permits us to discuss those criteria, and, I hope, learn something from the discussion.