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Old 05-12-2003, 05:39 PM   #45
Rokenn
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Join Date: January 22, 2002
Location: california wine country
Age: 61
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Originally posted by Thorfinn:
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Rokenn: And if you dispersed the power so finely to keep it at a minium nothing would ever be accomplished or decided.
Why do you say that? We disperse the power of deciding what kind of soap Jewel-Osco stocks clear down to the individual consumer. Yet despite the fact that no one is forcing J-O purchasing agents to stock any particular brand, at any particular level, this happens totally without direction from gov't or consumer, they happen to have enough on hand to satisfy pretty much everyone, pretty much all the time.

Why do you believe that the same doesn't apply to other decisions?
[/QUOTE]Because researching what the safe level is of a new chemical compound is a bit more complicated then deciding who many cans of soup to order. Would you trust the quality of your drinking water to the guy at your local mini-mart? Or how many tanks the army needs?
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