Posted by Neredbojias on 05/31/07 06:22

On Wed, 30 May 2007 10:14:09 GMT Toby A Inkster scribed:

> Neredbojias wrote:
>
>> Do you not believe in following the standards? -Or only when it
>> "seems right"?
>
> To slightly rephrase the question, should one blindly follow the
> standards, even when they seem wrong? I say, no.

I agree.

> The question then
> becomes, how wrong do the standards have to seem before one can be
> justified in breaking them?

One is never justified in breaking the standards if one professes to follow
them. That should be obvious.

Your second rephrasing begs the question "Is there an objective guage of
'wrongness' for allowable nonobservance of said standard?'" There isn't,
of course, because if there were, it would be a standard
(exception/adjustment) itself. Therefore, the option lies with the
individual, as is pretty much true universally. So while it may seem
justified or prudent to you to break a standard, it may not seem so to me,
and vice versa. For that reason, (to wit: avoiding the vagueries of
subjectivity,) standards are made.

When I suggested it was wrong not to capitalize words at the beginnings of
sentences, I was objectively perfectly correct. Yet in response to a
simple statement to the effect of the jeopardy of wandering from this
established path, I received a plethora of lamentable replies which for the
most part failed to address the actual context of my communique. Is it no
wonder, then, that I became a trifle bemused? Is it at all surprising I
metaphorically belched over the cacophony of cantankerous claptrap which
greeted my tame and intrinsically instructive demure? Hardly, bro.

--
Neredbojias
He who laughs last sounds like an idiot.

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