Re: Collective Volition, next take

From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Sat Jul 23 2005 - 16:15:33 MDT


On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 10:58:16PM +0100, Russell Wallace wrote:
> What I can say is that _to the extent that the system forces
> everyone to submit to the will of the Collective_ (as was implied
> by the original paper, a position you seem to be partly retreating
> from now - if you are retreating from that position, good), you're
> proposing to create Hell.

Collective Volition *NEVER* proposed that. "The will of the
collective" and "the extrapolated volition of the collective" have
little or nothing in common with each other.

-Robin

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