Xref: utzoo alt.religion.computers:1295 gnu.misc.discuss:717 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!bu.edu!bu-cs!xylogics!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Morals Message-ID: <1990Jan6.193358.11736@world.std.com> Date: 6 Jan 90 19:33:58 GMT References: Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: jde@unify.uucp's message of 5 Jan 90 23:22:45 GMT >Say I meet you on a streetcorner in front of my pizzaria. People who >buy my pizza like to eat it and enjoy the atmosphere. I like to keep >the atmosphere "nice", so when I see someone hanging around outside >my shop, or leaning against the window, I... > >1. Ask them to leave > >2. Pay them a dollar to leave > >3. Offer them five dollars for their pocket fluff if they leave > >4. Offer them a slice of my pizza for 10 cents if they leave. I'm not sure I follow your analogy but it's interesting to note that this was *precisely* how the protection racket, which later blossomed into Murder Inc., got started in NYC. I had an uncle who hung around with that crowd when they were all more or less innocent kids in the Bronx. They'd hang around in front of soda shops, street corner life. One of the owners started giving them a nickel if they'd hang out elsewhere, the rest is history as they started demanding their nickels (in a time where a nickel was some money to, say, a 12 year old), on to window insurance, the rest is history. I ain't sayin' it was the store owners fault, but boy was that an interesting analogy you chose. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade | bzs@world.std.com 1330 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202 | {xylogics,uunet}world!bzs