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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Virus spread due to piracy?  Huh?
Message-ID: <2033@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 88 03:26:49 GMT
References: <2264@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Summary: You'd never guess that wade and I are actually friends :-)

In article <2264@crash.cts.com> haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) writes:
>richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>All this talk about pirates getting their just desserts when a virus
>>destroys all their work reminds me of the "fags deserve to get A.I.D.S.,
>>it's gods revenge" school of thought.
>
>
>        I don't think the idea is the same at all.  A gay has not 
>      stolen someone elses property and contracted AIDS as a result!
>      The software pirate, on the other hand, has stolen someone's
>      property, and thus is deserving of some punishment.
>

Well, some people thinks that gays deserve to get some horrible disease
because they subscribe to a different set of values and standards.

A pirate deserves to have the penalty of the law thrust upon him/her
but not to have all his/her work destroyed arbitrarily.

"Why don't you just cut their arms and legs off, they'll never 
do it again" 
            - Hunter S. Thompson




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