[blml] Something understood.

[WILLIAM SCHODER]

Seems to me that we Americans have had revolutionary success -- in fact I 
believe it was against the English unless my history books are wrong. Maybe 
if we had taken an incremental approach in Boston the harbor would not have 
become a giant tea cup.

I'm not surprised that Grattan feels the need to explain how he would have 
done things better.  But, I got to read and study what he produced, and 
believe me, it would have taken a lot longer and been harder to translate 
into English than the present product.  There is also the highly valid point 
in producing laws which grates on all those who see themselves more 
qualified to write laws than those who wrote the ones under Review. "If it 
isn't broken, don't fix it!" The WBF ByLaws  mandated "REVIEW of the Laws" 
accurately fits an incremental approach to progress to assure that some 
revolutionary doesn't screw things up. The game will survive however, as 
long as we keep common sense on our plate.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ton" <t.kooyman at worldonline.nl>
To: "'Bridge Laws Mailing List'" <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [blml] Something understood.


>
>
> <
> +=+ What must be recognized is that before God we
> are all equal. It is true that in my initial approach to
> the 2007 Laws I made a determined effort to persuade
> colleagues that we should dig up the tree root and branch
> and devise a wholly new Code of Laws. This could not be
> achieved because God and my friends decreed that all
> progress must be incremental rather than revolutionary.
>
>
>
> I am not sure that Grattan's description above is an adequate one.
>
> Indeed we did not support his effort to produce a 'wholly mew code of 
> laws',
> but the reason?
> I estimate to have more revolution in my left pink than Grattan in 
> whatever
> collection he may compose (indeed: not including my left pink)
>
>
> ton
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