Competence

"Justice without power is incompetence. Power without justice is also incompetence.."

"Every person is going to have a circle of competence. And its going to be very hard to advance that circle. If I had to make my living as a musician.... I cant even think of a level low enough to describe where I would be sorted out to if music were the measuring standard of the civilization. So you have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you dont, youre going to lose. And thats as close to certain as any prediction that you can make. You have to figure out where youve got an edge. And youve got to play within your own circle of competence."

"Is competence not rather a question of degree and a question of context in the sense that children – and, as a matter of fact, all human beings – may very well be competent to decide on certain issues while not on others or be competent to decide if certain conditions are met – such as the conditions required in the doctrine on informed consent – while their decision may be efficient if these conditions are not fulfilled?"