Posted by Mark Parnell on 12/22/73 11:49

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, dorayme
<doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> declared in alt.html:

> This is either a confusion or a non sequitur. You need to look
> hard at what you mean by an "imperfect standard". This can mean a
> variety of different things.

Something being a "standard" doesn't necessarily make it good or right,
as you previously noted. A perfect standard is one that has no flaws. An
imperfect standard is one that has at least one flaw, no matter how
minor.

> Being
> perfect is a bit (I did not say exactly) like "going very fast"
> or "being very big", one needs to know what the standard is. The
> idea of being big absolutely is a nonsense.

Unless its size is infinite. :-)

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