Re: [lojban] Re: Duty, promice etc...

["Cyril Slobin" <slobin@ice.ru>]

coi xorxes

> > > "Keeping your promise would be silly" I suggest:
> > > {lo nu zukte lo se nupre be do cu se bebna}

I have spent a sleepless night thinking about the subject, and I have
some new enlightenment now. Let us put "promise" aside, consider
"request". Imagine the following scenario: I, Cyril, send to you,
Jorge, a letter with request to explain your ideas about {nupre}. But
you do not receive my letter - it was disappeared into the Great Black
Hole in the Middle of the Internet. But you, being not aware about my
request, by your own initiative, write a message explaining your ideas
about {nupre}. Do you comply with my request? The answer "no" is at
least defensible. To comply with request, you must not only do the
action requested, but also do it because of request. Similarly, to
fulfil the promise is not just do the promised thing, but do it
because of promise. So my current solution is:

   le nu do mu'igi nupre gi zukte vau ko'a cu se bebna

But at this point I remember about the price of infinite precision...
So for practical needs I just say {tu'a lo se nupre be do cu bebna}.

... Human attention ...

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Cyril Slobin <lj user="slobin">