[cap-talk] Capabilities and Freedom vs. Safety

[James A. Donald]

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
 > The difference between James and the community is that
 > James doesn't understand the math. He therefore tries
 > to reason about this stuff informally. Then he gets
 > upset when people who *do* understand the math tell
 > him that he has it wrong.

Irrespective of the truth of this, it is not something
that should be said on a public mailing list if someone
is looking for fruitful debate, rather than looking to
silence heresy.

In a previously post, I remarked that I failed to
understand your reasoning.  Perhaps in future I should
express similar statements using different wording.