From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 95 00:56:28 PST
To: Don Doumakes <doumakes@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: LOCKSMITH'S GUILD WANTS L
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On Tue, 24 Jan 1995, Don Doumakes wrote:
 
> But I don't buy your other implication, that it is a Good Thing to
> unleash the unlicensed.  Licensing serves, or should serve, a public
> good under the following conditions:  (a) consumers don't have the
> information necessary to make an informed choice between professionals,
> and ....

This assumes that governments have the necessary wisdom
to tell a bad architect from a good architect.   This does
not seem very plausible.

What most people would do is look at the certificate issued by
various certifying organizations  -- for example the doctores
university.

While universities often issue or refrain from issuing certificates
for corrupt and improper reasons, government supervision on this 
matter is unlikely to keep them honest --- indeed it is more likely
to force them to be dishonest, or to force them to deny their own
sound judgment in favor of arbitrary and foolish criteria imposed
by some ignorant and arrogant bureaucrat.

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