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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: interference
Message-ID: <756@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 16:39:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.756
Posted: Sun Sep 29 16:39:43 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Oct-85 03:14:16 EDT
References: <194@rtp47.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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Summary: 

In article <194@rtp47.UUCP> throopw@rtp47.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
>Perhaps I'm dense, but I just can't see that "interference" (as used in
>Rich's "objective morality") can be defined clearly enough to be
>usefull. There seems to be no rigid rule that determines what is
>interference, and what is not.  Some examples are in order.
>
	I feel the problem goes even deeper than that. There is the
problem that occurs when *any* action amounts to interference.
For example: I share an office at work with someone who smokes,
and who becomes nervous and irritable when he cannot smoke. BUT,
I am irritated and distracted by smoke, and my efficiency on the
job is impaired by smoking nearby. Now if my officemate smokes he 
is *interfering* with my ability to do my job and with my ability
to avoid stress, I cannot readily leave, since that would be
equivalent to quitting.(And pushing me into quitting a job I like is
most certainly interference as far as I am concerned). On the other
hand if I refuse to let him smoke in our office, then I am interfering
with *him* and reducing *his* effectiveness at his job. So what do we
do until we can cinvince our employer to give us seperate offices, do
we let him interfere with me or do I interfere with him, in what
amounts to *equivalent* interference either way, since we would both
suffer essentially the same consequences.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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