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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (57096)	7/30/2004 1:20:28 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793706

I don't think of myself as doing good, I think that it is my duty to choose the lesser of evils, but I would rather not choose any evil at all. Recently I read an argument that one should not even choose the lesser of evils, because that makes you complicit in evil. I am afraid that this argument is correct.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (57096)	7/30/2004 3:07:09 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793706

The job is to make it as efficient as possbile, where there is a minimum of waste and abuse. There was a time when I thought that centralized control was the most efficient approach, minimizing waste and abuse. It seemed so logical. Why have fifty states reinventing the wheel for something that could be done by a single government bureaucracy. Why have different individuals inventing things and trying new processes most of which will fail when we could get the best and the brightest, plunk them down in Washington, and have them decide the optimal way to queue up patrons in a restaurant or a hospital, for example? I used to scratch my had when people said that capitalism was efficient. How could that be efficient when so much is invested in business that fail? Waste all over the place. Well, I lived and learned. Big systems are usually out of date by the time they're installed. The loudest lobby doesn't produce the best ideas. No one can think of everything. Bureaucratic overhead will sap any system. And big systems are almost impossible to turn around. Nothing efficient about that.