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From: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Copyrights and Coercion
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Date: 17 Mar 88 10:26:07 GMT
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Reply-To: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Smee)
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Keywords: Coercion Evil

Logajan (apparently) says...
>
>The General Theory of Reciprocity:
>    Anyone who initiates action X toward another cannot then rationally
>    object to the application of equivalent action X toward himself.
>
>       Logajan's Golden Rule  ... Yeah! That's the ticket!
>
>- John M. Logajan            {...!rutgers!} umn-cs!hyper!ns!logajan
>- Network System Corp.;  7600 Boone Ave;   Brooklyn Park,  MN 55428


Careful John.  Someone suggested that nearly 2000 years ago, and got nailed
to a tree basically for saying how great it would be to be nice to
people for a change.  (To paraphrase Douglas Adams -- HHGG part 2). :-)

(No, I'm not super religious, but I can accept the bible as an interesting
story; maybe even as metaphorically expressed history.  Either way, this
guy sounds like he was a pretty good dude, to me.  Shame that not everyone
who professes actual faith is likewise.

Anyway, this looks dangerously like getting metaphysical -- I suppose if
anyone wants to challenge this one on religious grounds, they should e-mail
me, or move it to net.religion.)

Cheers, Paul