[blml] Seven cases where potential UI is deemed more harmful than MI in the laws

[David Burn]

[JF, quoting DALB]

You are not allowed to ask questions for the purpose of communicating with
partner - indeed, you are not allowed to initiate any kind of communication
with partner except by means of legal calls and plays.

[JF]

Would MS supporters like to append "and actions" to the end of this last
sentence?  If not, you've sunk your own position - do you see why?

[DALB]

No, I don't. What "actions" should be added to the list of permissible
communication between partners? Giving explanations? Asking questions?
Doubling slowly? Holding your cards with two fingers showing when you have
two hearts?

[JF]

Would the supporters of the notion that UI is harmless please focus on the
question I have asked more than a dozen times:  Do you really think that UI
is harmless?

[DALB]

I have not answered it a dozen times, but there is no need - once is enough.
UI is harmless, unless both the transmitter and the receiver are cheats and
their cheating goes undetected.

[JF]

Do you reaffirm that UI is harmless?

[DALB]

Yes, subject to the caveats above.

[JF, quoting DALB]

It is not a matter of "allowing MI to remain at the risk of creating UI"

[JF]

David's first red herring in this post. I never said what he put in quotes.
I wish people would stop misquoting me.

[JF, from previous post]

"The law often requires MI to remain to avoid the risk of UI."  I hope I am
not mistaking his meaning here.

[DALB, in the current post, for those who might otherwise have been
confused]

Whether or not I actually misrepresented your position may be judged by
others from the excerpts above. If I did, I am sorry. If I didn't... well, I
am still sorry, for I don't understand at all the contribution you are
trying to make to the question of whether UI or MI is "the more harmful".
Not that this is your fault - I have never understood Herman's views either.
But well it was said by the bard:

It may be we were meant to mark, with our riot and our rest,
God's scorn for all men governing. It may be beer is best.

David Burn
London, England