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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

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.

 

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

 

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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