Re: [ICANN-EU] enough is enough!

[Christoph <cweber@dialup.nacamar.de>]

Hello,

Jeanette Hofmann wrote:

> > Sorry for playing another round. I do not want to have an European
> > director without the necessary knowledge.
> This petty quarrelling on this list really pisses me off!

> It is perfectly ok to ask for the candidates positions, but to fall all over
> their responses like hyenas and tear them personally to shreds is not
> the point of the excercise.

With all due respect, analysing a candidate and her or his 
positions (or the lack thereof) is within the scope of this list.

A public debate cannot do without that; that is the very essence
of democracy.

You have a point of course, that we should try to keep that away from
personal attacks - but even that is a sticky issue: one guy's personal 
attack's may be the other one's political opinions.

> None of us is an expert in everything, the voters obviously trust us 

As evidenced countless times, the trust of any number of voters 
doesn't guarantee good decisions by the voted-for in any way.

> to be able to acquire whatever information we need to deal 
> with any given issue. 

Well, is that possible ? Can you acquire enough expertise on the
subjects at hand within the given short time frames and with an 
overall small time budget to make good decisions ?

To really understand all the implications your decisions might 
have ? To estimate the efforts, the work, the costs some 
apparently minor point in one of your propoals might cause ?

Why do you think have most of us wasted years of their life
learning that stuff where one can now get an expert by a 
net couple of days of reading ?

Questions, I think , worth asking, and none of these 
intended to tear you or anybody else "personally to 
shreds". As a candidate you bring in a very interesting set
of qualifications and a unique angle, but we - as voters - 
will have to balance these againt the risks and drawbacks of
your candidacy. And we can only do that if we understand them

Regards

Christoph Weber-Fahr