Frazz for 9/24/2013:
One of the problems with the principles of cooperative communication is that those who don't adhere to them are generally able to manipulate those who do. I've never seen an account of how such principles endure in the face of rampant (and mostly unpunished) default, though I suppose that you could try to maintain a version in which the principles' effect depends only on a general pretense of trying to communicate cooperatively…
[Tip of the hat to Tim Leonard]
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