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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Rastan GS!
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Date: 17 Sep 90 17:27:44 GMT
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In article <1990Sep16.182926.10944@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) writes:
>  But I have a question for ya all.  The pirate mentality is, I think, an
>adolescent mentality.  The young are easily motivated and impressionable.
>Therefore, shouldn't it be possible to do SOMETHING to change these kids'
>attitutes towards what most consider a crime?
>  Part of the problem is that most kids don't have the money to spend on $50
>video games (although new Nintendo carts can cost that much).  The high cost
>of software drives the kids to pirate. And of course the software industry 
>blames the pirates for the high cost of software.  Somewhere, this circle
>has to be broken.

I don't believe that software prices have a thing to do with it.  Pirates
often use that as an excuse, yet they pirate even inexpensive software.

I think the root of the problem is that these ethical retards were not
raised to understand that values need to be earned, and that mere desire
for something does not entitle one to it.  If you really want to improve
the situation, you should concentrate on ways to spread a rational
philosophy in place of the hodge-podge of unjustifiable notions that most
of the public hold in its place.