The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77585   Message #1388055
Posted By: Amos
25-Jan-05 - 11:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: liberty, freedom, and violence
Subject: RE: BS: liberty, freedom, and violence
The definition of such perfection would have to be dynamic with a clear perspective on the boundaries of "perfect" rates of change. You don't get good quality control defining a static and unchanging perfection.

However, there are probably some rations that you could define workable "perfect" limits for -- some of them would be grounds for interesting research. For example, ratios between advertising and crime, or the frequency and magnitude of social perturbations resulting in protest come to mind. The frequency of public falsehoods compared tothe frequency of violent deaths. The ration of a base-line low-end salary to the highest incomes. Or the range of earnings using a loaf of bread as a unit of measure.

Anyway, there are unlimited things you could measure, but the interest question would be which measures would mean something?

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