[governance] Mercenaries on the list-- Amateur, professional, mercenary semantics

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron]

Hi all,

For once, I agree intoto with Suresh. He placed a rock solid argument
there. I hope ther should be no more beating about the bush.
Suresh, it was wll thought and, Kudos.0

Aaron

On 5/25/08, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
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> With actual, well defined professionals, there's no conflict of interest
> from advocating your party's line, or fighting for your party's cause.
> Advocacy for pay, or fight for pay mercenaries tend to engender far less
> trust, and far more contempt, for obvious reasons, starting with the entire
> "conflict of interest" thing and going on to how loyal to a particular cause
> such people can be in the long run.
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> From: Ginger Paque [mailto:ginger at paque.net]
> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 9:26 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] Mercenaries on the list-- Amateur, professional,
> mercenary semantics
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> Since in this discussion we are not talking about mercenaries as paid
> combatants in an armed conflict, what is the difference between a
> professional and a mercenary? In the best case scenario, isn't a
> professional someone who gets paid to do what they want to do anyway?
> Wouldn't we RATHER have professionals working with us?
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