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What is a '''Good Thing'''? It is the opposite of a '''Bad Thing'''. Every group of people has their own list of what they consider to be unambiguously '''Good''' and accordingly a list of opposing Bad principles. | What is a '''Good Thing'''? It is the opposite of a '''Bad Thing'''. Every group of people has their own list of what they consider to be unambiguously '''Good''' and accordingly a list of opposing Bad principles. | ||
''In general, we do not care if something discussed here "is or is not a '''Good Thing'''". We care if it is [[good enough]]. This applies to both our own software designs and requirements statements, and [[corporate practice]]s we are here to expose and change. If it's good enough, we aren't fighting it, because we can't fight everything, at least, not everything at once!'' | |||
''The rest of this is about the general struggle to define [[w:goodness and value theory|goodness]] within the frame of our [[Consumerium Services]]:'' | |||
In every [[language]], and every [[glossary]] within that language, there are certain terms that are invoked as a means of '''not arguing about their value'''. For instance, to say something is "[[fair]]" is to say it is good enough and should not be investigated or changed or disputed any more. In other words, it is a '''Good Thing''' to be "[[fair]]" whatever fair means in this context: no one uses "fair" to mean "unacceptable" though they might use it to mean "barely acceptable", e.g. the scale [[poor, fair, good, very good, excellent]] in which just being fair is not very '''good''', but '''good enough'''. Likewise, "[[to be]] '''unfair'''" is necessarily always a '''Bad Thing'''. Using these words is not debating: it is just restating [[dogma]]. | In every [[language]], and every [[glossary]] within that language, there are certain terms that are invoked as a means of '''not arguing about their value'''. For instance, to say something is "[[fair]]" is to say it is good enough and should not be investigated or changed or disputed any more. In other words, it is a '''Good Thing''' to be "[[fair]]" whatever fair means in this context: no one uses "fair" to mean "unacceptable" though they might use it to mean "barely acceptable", e.g. the scale [[poor, fair, good, very good, excellent]] in which just being fair is not very '''good''', but '''good enough'''. Likewise, "[[to be]] '''unfair'''" is necessarily always a '''Bad Thing'''. Using these words is not debating: it is just restating [[dogma]]. | ||