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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
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Subject: Re: Seat belts
Message-ID: <1333@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-May-85 09:56:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  1 09:56:52 1985
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Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
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Summary: 

In article <307@h-sc1.UUCP> desjardins@h-sc1.UUCP (marie desjardins) writes:
>> You seem to forget one important point in ranting
>> against government.  YOU are the government.  

... deleted lines written by T. C. Wheeler

>Yeah, but SOMEBODY always loses and those people are invariably going
>to rant against the government.  I would like the government to change,
>but haven't had much luck in getting the majority of the populace to
>agree with me.  Does this mean I have no right to complain?

 	marie desjardins

a few years back, the Mathematical Games column of Scientific American
did a little game theory analysis of the system of plain majority votes
in decisions.  i forget the date, but in essence, it concluded that
majority votes were fine if you were one of the majority, but poorly
represented any minorities.  

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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