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From: ornitz@kodak.UUCP (barry ornitz)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: 9-volt / rocket launcher?  (Poll)
Summary: Another for Larry
Keywords: poll,wisdom,knowledge,responsibility
Message-ID: <1575@kodak.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 89 03:45:09 GMT
References: <2557@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <2862@kitty.UUCP> <12974@cup.portal.com> <2867@kitty.UUCP> <13062@cup.portal.com>
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In article <13062@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) 
writes:
>Am I right or am I wrong?  C'mon net.electronics, pass judgement on Larry
>Lippman vs. me!  Do you want maximum facts, or just the facts you can be
>trusted with?

I feel Mark is wrong here.  Knowledge alone does not create wisdom; responsi-
bility is also needed.  There was considerable discussion on the net recently
about teaching ethics to computer scientists.  I wonder if Mark thinks the
author of the Worm program that caused chaos on the net should be praised or
punished?  Accepting responsibility for your actions is a moral as well as 
legal issue.  Larry and I have seen the results of amateur pyrotechnists and
bomb makers (see my posting in sci.space on model rockets).  I do not want to
see more kids maimed or killed like the three this past weekend in D.C.  

Larry Lippman has repeatedly demonstrated his wisdom on the net.  Mark Thorson
has only shown that he can post some "facts" without thinking about the
consequences.
                                Barry L. Ornitz

P.S.  My apologies for posting this in sci.electronics.  If this discussion
continues, it should be moved elsewhere.
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