Kmarion wrote:
The rules would have to be completely rewritten. I can only assume that you have not been to too many formal meetings. We are DEvolving as we pursue these less personable social interactions.
I disagree. When people focus less on mannerisms and more on words and facts, they become more logical. When emotion is slowly drained out of interactions, this serves rationality well.
Now, I realize that with friendships and marriages, the personability and emotion is needed, but when constructing policy, it should be an exercise of pure logic. Clearly, given some of the ludicrous laws we come up with, logic is often neglected.
Kmarion wrote:
They are at the core of our being. We aren't talking about governors here.. we are talking about the federal government. It simply can not work without direct interaction with colleagues. To suggest that every committee link up to their lappy's to discuss geopolitcal warfare is ludicris.
Not really. Diplomacy with foreign leaders needs to be personal, but when discussing things among your own legislature, impersonal communication allows a more rational focus.
Kmarion wrote:
MUCH is lost when you aren't sitting right in front of them. Not all communication is transmitted over wire. And sometimes it a good thing to have a colleague taking another colleague out to eat and picking his brain, or building a consensus. It easier to work for a common goal when you actually work together. These big corporations that you say the Government should be following (btw wtf) do this. Not only do they encourage it but they sponsor it by buying dinners and sending them of to camps etc..
I see what you're saying, but that sounds less like rational choices being made and more about emotional gratification with subtle favors. This is sidestepping what should be the focus of a law -- the reasoning behind it, not the packaging.
