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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8396444" data-attributes="member: 7023840">No- you misunderstand.What is an adjective? Seriously, what is it?An adjetive is a word that limits a noun. If you have a rock (noun) it can be any kind of rock. But if you have a red (adjective) rock, it can't be any other color. If you have a heavy rock, it can no longer be any other weight. And so on.This doesn't mean the adjectives are bad. Just because adjectives &quot;bind&quot; or &quot;limit&quot; the noun in a particular way. But that's the purpose of them.I think that if you drop your preconceptions about a desired outcome of this discussion- in other words, if you assume it is a discussion and not a debate, you would see that the truism that rules necessarily limit a decision-maker is not a pejorative.It's neither good nor bad, it just is.I am going to cut off the rest of your comment there; no, things don't work in the way you describe. But none of that is relevant to the point I was making, which was a simple analogy regarding sentencing decisions and is a well-known debate. None of that is really germane to this blog.The lesson, as always- People seem much more interested in taking analogies apart, identifying what doesn’t work, and discarding them rather than — more generously and constructively IMO — using them as the author intended to better understand the subject matter. The perfect metaphor doesn’t exist because then it wouldn’t be a metaphor.If you didn't like the analogy, that's fine. But I'm pretty sure you understood the point.EDIT- removed long explanation of incorrectness as it was not relevant to subject.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 8396444, member: 7023840"] No- you misunderstand. What is an adjective? Seriously, what is it? An adjetive is a word that [I]limits[/I] a noun. If you have a rock (noun) it can be any kind of rock. But if you have a red (adjective) rock, it can't be any other color. If you have a heavy rock, it can no longer be any other weight. And so on. This doesn't mean the adjectives are bad. Just because adjectives "bind" or "limit" the noun in a particular way. But that's the purpose of them. I think that if you drop your preconceptions about a desired outcome of this discussion- in other words, if you assume it is a discussion and not a debate, you would see that the truism that rules necessarily limit a decision-maker is not a pejorative. It's neither good nor bad, it just is. I am going to cut off the rest of your comment there; no, things don't work in the way you describe. But none of that is relevant to the point I was making, which was a simple analogy regarding sentencing decisions and is a well-known debate. None of that is really germane to this blog. The lesson, as always- [I]People seem much more interested in taking analogies apart, identifying what doesn’t work, and discarding them rather than — more generously and constructively IMO — using them as the author intended to better understand the subject matter. The perfect metaphor doesn’t exist because then it wouldn’t be a metaphor.[/I] If you didn't like the analogy, that's fine. But I'm pretty sure you understood the point. EDIT- removed long explanation of incorrectness as it was not relevant to subject. [/QUOTE]

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