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From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant)
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Subject: Re: Dave Berry Copyrights Flame
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 17:34:39 EDT
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> > But, did you stop to consider that posting such things may be illegal?  Now,
> > no, no one is going to prosecute you, but it is still wrong.
> 
> Oh, so illegal = wrong?  You're certainly a good obedient citizen, aren't
> you?  Of course, our morals should always be dictated by the state... We
> can't be going around thinking for ourselves, can we?
> 
> 	Wayne

Absolutely correct.  It makes things nice and standard that way...

Seriously, of course not.  In the U.S., since we are (last I heard)
a democracy, the laws become laws because a majority of the folks
feel that doing whatever you're doing is wrong.  Under such cases,
since majority does rule, you go along with.  Just to go overboard
on this one, if I feel killing people in cold blood is a pretty okay
thing to do and I find nothing wrong with it, that means I still
shouldn't do it because the society that I live in says I shouldn't.
If I don't like it, I move.

Now, copyrights are slightly different in this case because if you
break the law by posting this material, one could say that you are
flaunting your belief that it is okay.  (I might not, but someone
else might.)  Other people see this and are upset by it.  For example,
if I think clothes are horrible things, this doesn't mean I can go
strolling around with nothing on and seriously upset my neighbors.
(They might have a good laugh, actually.  Lots of prudes in my neighbor-
hood)

I think most of us feel that people forcing their beliefs on others
is tacky.  I feel that being tacky is wrong.  QED.
--
"Quick EDitor?"                                 Peter Merchant