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To: Fred Gohlke who wrote (11035)	2/7/2006 6:47:11 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541791

One quality the most destructive rogues have in common is great size. You skip from there to size being a proxy for rogueness without demonstrating the correlation. Even assuming that the above assertion is true, that is not a basis for the conclusion that large entities are necessarily or even frequently rogues.

To: Fred Gohlke who wrote (11035)	2/7/2006 10:30:54 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541791

Perhaps you'll offer a critique: That is often a dangerous request. The first part reminds me a great deal of a subject near and dear to my philosophy. What is wrong with the pursuit of self-interest? There is nothing wrong with it ... until it is carried to excess. Compare that to this 40 year old essay: dieoff.org Those who have studied electronics learn that a signal which is amplified and then rerouted to itself will increase beyond all limits until the amplification system fails to preserve the signal. (This is often heard as the high-pitched noise when a performer gets his microphone too close to a speaker). It's a feedback loop. This squeal can be controlled if the signal that is fed back is inverted, that is to say less signal is fed back when the output is loud and more when it is quiet. The second part of your essay seems to refer to an economic negative feedback control in the form of a citizen's tax. I think this in general is the right approach although there are many specific methods that can produce a negative feedback control cycle to economic systems. Furthmore, the math is well understood so that the effect of systems can be predicted. Unfortunately, there seems to be few outside the electronics field that understand the nature of feedback and control systems. oz.net