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WCDT strips 3836-3840 (24 to 28 September 2018)
Morituri:
We actually do have baked clay tablets from Sumer that talk about the new invention of paper and decry its ephemerality. It has no evidentiary value, the scribe laments, and can't be used to keep records because in a few years it's gone to rot and decay. And yet fools who haven't proper facilities to store enough clay tablets for their needs desire the use of it, even though trouble shall surely befall them due to its inferiority.
Now, it is possible that the people who advocated the use of that early papyrus paper responded with a rebuttal. But if so, it's lost to history. Which sort of proves the tablet author's point about evidentiary value and records-keeping, I guess.
sitnspin:
There have been people at various stages in history who decried writing things down at all saying it eroded our ability to remember things and made us intellectually lazy. With the advent of the internet and how easy it is to look something up immediately when you are curious and then instantly forget it again cos you don't need to remember, I can kind of see their point.
JimC:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 29 Sep 2018, 20:23 ---I see a distinction in that one is physiological cause and effect and the other is an assembly of choices that employers and laws and licensing boards have made.
--- End quote ---
Ultimately no. Your mistakes will always haunt you to a greater or lesser extent.
In societies without functioning law enforcement and criminal justice the payment tends to be very short term and of the type that involves stones, or ropes and trees... People forget that what we had before modern law enforcement was more arbitrary, more brutal and more error prone.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: JimC on 01 Oct 2018, 09:05 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 29 Sep 2018, 20:23 ---I see a distinction in that one is physiological cause and effect and the other is an assembly of choices that employers and laws and licensing boards have made.
--- End quote ---
Ultimately no. Your mistakes will always haunt you to a greater or lesser extent.
In societies without functioning law enforcement and criminal justice the payment tends to be very short term and of the type that involves stones, or ropes and trees... People forget that what we had before modern law enforcement was more arbitrary, more brutal and more error prone.
--- End quote ---
Sometimes cops actually are despicable, but criminals and lynch mob leaders always despise cops.
Tova:
I agree enthusiastically with all three posts (including the two quoted ones) above. Just confused by the "ultimately no" bit. Ultimately no... what?
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