[ProgSoc] Clubs Trivia 29/08/08

Roland Turner raz at raz.cx
Mon Jul 14 17:06:52 EST 2008


On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 16:54 +1000, John Elliot wrote:

> Perhaps the best course of action is to take an expansive view of our 
> community, and recognise that if we take no action and fail to win the 
> competition, then at least less time and materials were lost among the 
> collection of UTS clubs, and we can be happy knowing that the $250 
> received by some other club helps to mitigate in some way the "broken 
> window" of their appearance? I dunno. It's all a bit too tricky for me.

To which of the broken window fallacies do you refer:

- that which says that a broken window creates employment for someone
and is therefore a good thing

- that which says that a broken window encourages further abuse and is
therefore a bad thing

?

- Raz



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