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Scott D points to Cope's Rule in biology as gainsaying Eve's belief that decentralization as inherently destablizingdestabilizing. Rule-making, operations, and enforcement can be separated so that not all need to be centralization. (Also see the network effect.) Eve's version says that "No committee ever recommends its own demise." 
This is why she hopes that we stick to our six-month plan!
Can we find a chair pro tem for next Thursday?