From:	The Reverend <MDB0213@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject:	More on Mr. Ed (willllllbuuurrrrr!)
Date:	Sun, 18 Apr 1993 20:12:23 -0500

(sorry, Highlander... couldn't resist)

>However hard you strive to establish some kind of "official" ruling on the
>subject of conjuring and slavery (or anything else, for that matter), any GM
>who disagrees is going to chuck it out the window anyway, so why bother?
Or we can take the other side of the issue. Why even bother HAVING discussions
on ANYTHING? We could shut down this list, save the Leerless Feeder some work,
and save our disk quotas. If you're going to say "they'll do whatever they feel
like anyway", that's your prerogative. Personally, I think that a lot has come
up. Decisions are made based on facts and information. If a certain post is not
discussed, this lowers the amount of information available for any GM. To
paraphrase my Management prof... "nobody wins if the information to make an
informed judgement doesn't exist".

>Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but I do it to share
>my ideas and opinions with others on SHADOWRN who might be interested in them.
Right. OPINIONS. This ain't a flame, btw... I just think that things like this
are HIGHLY opinionated, and impassioned discussions can only make the
"transaction costs" more bearable and efficient. You have your opinions, other
people have theirs. The idea is to take the opinions, BRING UP AS MUCH INFO AS
POSSIBLE, and then (if no concensus is reached) let the individual GM's decide.
I personally think that they are not slaves, all semantics aside. But that's my
opinion. (IMHO and all that jazz) If I can be proven wrong due to contrary
information in the books, we all win.

Reverend