[Buddha-l] Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia

[Gregory Bungo]

Hi everyone,

On 8/4/12 7:20 PM, "Richard Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:

>On Aug 4, 2012, at 5:44 PM, Bernard Simon <bernie.simon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> These philosophers obviously have not considered computer programmers,
>> who write programs knowing that they will have bugs, but do not intend
>> the bugs.
>
>They may not intend any given bug, but they do intend to put out an
>imperfect product, rather than letting the best be the enemy of the good.
>It's not an unreasonable intention to have.

That's not how I understand the meaning of "intend".  We intend to produce
a perfect product, but we expect to fail by producing a flawed product.
At some point we will realize that we have failed in our intention, but
that doesn't change what we intended in the past.

Regards,

Greg