Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 11:33:43 +0200 (CEST)
From: Joacim Persson <joacim-AT-ymex.net>
Subject: Re: UK uproar?


On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Ze Sprout wrote:

> At 21:45 +0200 01-10-2002, Joacim Persson wrote:
> >"Right" and "left" is another pair of nonsense words.
> now this makes a lot of things clear in your "reasoning". you have no
> clue what directions are.

Ehum... ;)

If you can provide a definition of a "right--left" function which:

* Is a definition, not an ad hoc line-up of various popular views.
* Is complete; embraces all ideologies or anti-ideologies.
* Is consistent; distinctevly places each on only a single point on this
  one-dimensional scale.

and last but not least:

* Is universal; acceptable to anyone, regardless of political
  denomination.

then I am eager to hear about it, because that is something which puzzled
me for years, until I decided to drop it.

When everyone uses his own left--right scale, each will only end up reciting
his own personal dictionary, in a disharmonic choir of disjoint monologues.