Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!udel!rochester!ken
From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: over-generalization considered silly
Message-ID: <9235@sol.ARPA>
Date: 2 May 88 01:46:19 GMT
References: <8805012323.AA01181@TOUCAN.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: nobody@cs.rochester.edu
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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Summary: a word may be used in different ways

|> >
|> >In general, a law which is not enforced does not exist.
|> 
|> What about E = mc^2 ?
|> This is a law, and no police or military is needed to enforce it.
|
|It seems well enforced to me, although not by police or military.  Just try
|to break it and see what happens. 

This looks like more pointless arguing about words. If you lump
man-made statutes with the way the universe works, all under one
three-letter word, then you get this kind of confusion. Unless you are
god and can create alternate universes... :-)

	Ken