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topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au
Fri Dec 6 07:44:34 PST 2002


On 7/12/2002 2:34 AM, "lbo-talk-digest" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> wrote:


>
> My favored analogy is that of a dog within an electric perimeter fence
> or on a retractable leash. The dog is free to run as he pleases within
> the area encricled by the leash or the fence, but that area varies as
> the owner releases or retracts the leash. The dog can even "negotiate"
> the length of the leash so some extent by interacting with the owner or
> may even break loose through the fence (as my friend's dog did)
> disregarding the negative feedback received in the form of
> electroshocks. But in each of the cases, the dog's behavior is a
> function of constraints and freedom within those constraints, both being
> determined by situation and interaction in that situation.
> Wojtek

Yikes. To each their own metaphor I guess, but this is a little bit too B.F. for my liking.

Thiago

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