I am sure we can figure out some way to keep people accountable. Lets
put our heads together and figure out a system that will work, maybe not
perfectly, but at least reasonably.
I will be off line until Sunday late.
Bruce
MVPA 23824
Steve Grammont wrote:
> Gene,
>
> >This sort of reasoning is absurd..and the thought would come only from a
> >devious person. Any one in this group would be more than willing to help
> >each other out as best they could..and would go far out of their way to
> >"honestly" describe a vehicle or lot of MV parts. It would be a matter of
> >honour...and as a retired Sergeant Major..I can say that if I caught someone
> >falsifying a description...that person would be in a very bad situation.
> >But--I don't believe it would happen.
>
> While I agree that honest people being put into these positions would
> probably not screw over their fellow MVers, there are a couple of
> negatives about the way human beings were constructed. One is that if
> something is spotted that they personally want, the temptation to fudge
> something in their favor increases. Given time the chance of
> "corruption" increases. Unless there is a system of accountability in
> place, which has dire consequences for violating, the chance of
> "corruption" increases. Worst, unless there is some sort of screening
> board which "certifies" the integrity of the person doing the fact
> checking, how can we have any faith in the system to begin with? I mean,
> who is to say that Joe Blow from Arkansa *is* an honerable person to
> start with? I believe in the honor system quite strongly, but it doesn't
> work when the person wasn't honerable to start with. Just look at some
> of the fine "upstanding citizens" who were elected to run our country and
> turned out to be crooks.
>
> Here is a MV example... a guy bought an MV from DRMO a while back for $x.
> 2 months later, without doing more than moving it down the road a few
> miles (from what I could tell), he advertised it for sale (as is, no
> shipping) at the "bargin" price of four times what he paid. He is also a
> member of this list. I don't mean to say this guy is a bad apple (I
> don't know him), or that he would purposefully screw over the rest of the
> world to make a buck, but I wouldn't want to take the risk.
>
> Or closer to home... how about Mr. Rubber Check that you have slammed on
> this list? He is a MV guy who is also on this list. Or the poor Aussie
> you lent a helping hand to (he still praises you for that too <g>) who
> found that the Weasel tracks he bought from some MV guy turned out to not
> exist? I doubt you would want one of these guys calling the shots for bids.
>
> Steve
>
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