User:The Cunctator

"a radical that ploughs up the roots of our social fabric."

The Cunctator created or edited most of the articles that got punted off into the .

He helped spur the creation of (then discussed as Project Sourceberg).

His policy debates with Larry Sanger drove Sanger to distraction and precipitated his exiting the project (see "The Hive" by Marshall Poe).

Some modest proposals (which could be tried as experiments) to consider:

The nearly immutable law of government is that while over the short term dangers to the health of society come from individual actors, over the long term the dangers come from the system.

It should be everyone's goal to figure out ways to eliminate potential problems before they can happen.

A good real world example of that is drugs; because it is a criminal act to use illegal drugs, millions of dollars and manhours and lives are spent in combatting drug use (the "war on drugs"). But if the drugs (such as marijuana) are decriminalized, a host of downstream costs to society disappear. There *are* different complications and needs (tobacco is a good example of the potential problems of having drugs be legal to use) but it's a lot easier to deal with drugs as a health issue than a crime issue.

Hi Cunc. For the record, I never actually left. I just refused to log in for several years and edited anonymously. Edit Count should not be a measure of significance. Manning () 16:18, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

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