"Paul Mensonides" <pmenso57@comcast.net> writes:
boost-bounces@lists.boost.org wrote:
If I make knives and my motivation is to make knives that please my customers, and some customer likes a particular design feature because it makes the knife an effective murder weapon, that doesn't mean that the feature is motivated by murder.
If you want to please your customers, *knowing* what their motivations are, then the motivations are transitive.
No, my motivations are mine, and their motivations are theirs. I refuse to accept -- and you have no right to claim -- that someone else's motivations become mine. Motivation is a personal phenomenon like intention and emotion. The motivated person is the ultimate authority. Anyway, this is getting quite silly. For me this is a technical issue, not a moral one, and I really don't want to get drawn further into a philisophical discussion of responsibility. I don't care all that much whether the semicolon is included in the macro, and since I am feeling overwhelmed and somewhat attacked I think I'll probably do nothing. But -- sincerely -- thank you anyway for going to the trouble to respond to my query and make your thoughts on the issue clear. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com