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From: eli@uw-june (Eli Messinger)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Flames Factorial (Movies)
Message-ID: <524@uw-june>
Date: Thu, 11-Aug-83 18:33:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: uw-june.524
Posted: Thu Aug 11 18:33:03 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Aug-83 16:43:24 EDT
Organization: U. Washington, Computer Sci
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Now that this discussion has moved into the net.flame I guess I can add
another two-cents worth.  I sent a reply to whomever originally felt it
necessary to question my value system, but I guess I should really have
sent it here.

Yes I am (heaven-forbid) a college student.  However I don't think this
holds too much importance in the situation being discussed, as my "accomplice"
was a 34-year-old contractor.  (Or do contractors have notoriously loose
morals?)

As I said in my original response, the two of us wandered into the second
screening shortly after it started, found two seats in the unfilled theater,
and picked up used 3-D glasses off of the floor.  It never occured to me
that I was stealing anything (except some excess photons).  Had there been
ushers standing at the door it might have occured to me that we were break-
ing the law.  But there were none to be seen, and we just walked into the
theater without a thought.

The point wasn't whether or not we could afford to pay for the second film,
or that we whole-heartedly wanted to cheat the theater out of the price.  We
just saw some bright objects moving inside of an open door, and some comfortable
seats from which to view them.

You can all rest assured that I feel extremely guilty, and will think two
or three times before I ever even think of doing anything like that again.


		... uw-beaver!eli