Originally Posted by
Greg Amy
Allow me some leeway without taking offense - certainly none intended - but what you describe above illustrates EXACTLY why we do not always put things up for democratic votes, and why we need leadership able to see the 30,000-foot view to make these decisions.
I don't know if you realize it (though I think you may), but here's what I just read:
- I don't want you to have access to cheaper and potentially more powerful JDM engines because it does not benefit me, and
- I want myself to have access Frankenstein engines because it benefits me by making engine choice cheaper for more power.
Yes at the same exact time, people above you just said:
- I want us to have access to JDM engines because it benefits me by making engine choice cheaper for more power.
...and you damned them for, effectively, being so selfish!
See the dichotomy?
Making the right choices involves compromise for all. But if we stick to changes that only benefit ourselves yet reject those that benefit others, then nobody gets anything. Yet if you support their JDM engines while asking them to support your Frankenstein engines, then it's quite possible all will benefit.
These are the kind of leadership choices we have to make. If I were king, we'd have both. But because of resistance as you yourself describe above, I can pretty much predict we'll get neither.
It can't just be "all about me", dude.
GA