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Re: Who's afraid of Mallory Wolf?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Wagner)
Tue Mar 25 13:51:04 2003
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From: daw@mozart.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
Date: 25 Mar 2003 18:17:45 GMT
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Ian Grigg writes:
>> I don't think mere monetary costs are even germane to
>> something like this. The costs, publicly and personally,
>> are of a different kind than money expresses.
>
>I'm sorry to disagree, but I'm sticking to my
>cost-benefit analysis: monetary costs are totally
>germane. You see, we need some way in which
>to measure the harm. It's either subjective as
>you describe above, which can't support an
>infrastructure decision, or its objective, which
>means, money.
I'm skeptical. Just because the cost is
subjective doesn't mean we should ignore the cost.
>But, luckily, there is a way to turn the above
>subjective morass of harm into an objective
>hard number: civil suit.
That's using a questionable measuring stick.
The damages paid out in a civil suit may be very
different (either higher, or lower) than the true
cost of the misconduct. Remember, the courts are
not intended to be a remedy for all harms, nor could
they ever be. The courts shouldn't be a replacement
for our independent judgement.
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