Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Piracy Summary: can you summarize 1+1=2 ? Message-ID: <119399@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 3 Aug 89 19:08:10 GMT References: Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 21 Consider the following two phrases : "I killed that person, but I am not guilty of any crime. After all, he was going to die someday anyway." "I stole a copy of this program, but I am not guilty of any crime. After all, I never would have purchased it anyway." The justification for both crimes is unrefutably true. What does that tell you? It tells you that you aren't debating truth or untruth, you are debating morals. From my personal perspective, anyone who believes that either one is ok, has a poor sense of morality. So what ?! As a member of the society which makes up the USA, I would like to see that society agrees with me. If they do, we'll through people like this in jail, if they don't we'll just live with it. The world continues to turn... --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. "A most excellent barbarian ... Genghis Kahn!"