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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (57398)	9/8/2002 6:19:39 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"If you destroy an alias.." If you stop using an alias then you no longer use it to refer to yourself. Using a diffrent name does not mean anything about you has changed except how you call yourself. Most of us are referred to by many names throughout the day. Pretending that the name has biological existence is laughable. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Shakespeare, I think. But what did he know! ;-) A name REFERS to a thing...it is not the THING! Words are conceptual inventions of communication and language. Words are NOT people!!!

To: epicure who wrote (57398)	9/9/2002 12:05:55 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

If you destroy an alias you have murdered a fictional creation (imo) What about if, without telling people, you turn the alias over to another 3d person to use? The alias life would continue unabated, but the 3d person would be different. Is it still the same alias? Or how about if two different people posted under one alias? Say a commune wants to post to SI, but only wants to pay one membership. So they set up a single alias and perhaps 20 different people post under it. We have no way of knowing whether an alias here is being used by one, two, or a hundred different 3D entities.