Re: Asimov Site

[Sandra Warnken <warnken@mother.com>]

You're putting words in my mouth and thoughts in my brain that aren't
mine.  The way you do it makes me mad.  We aren't perfect and the laws are
made by lawyers to create business for themselves.  A professor pointed
out that the lawyer is an extension of English law 1590s style.  Two
knights representing each party go out on a field and beat each other to a
bloody pulp.  The winner of the match gets the victory.  **** ****


On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, **** **** wrote:

>     Because we're all a bunch of nasty pirates, and we find loopholes. Haha.
> How is it that your laws are always so just, and so perfect... so moral. And
> yet they are constantly changing... but if someone you don't like, finds
> they are to his advantage, "oops, that wasn't meant like that, he's found a
> loophole, change it!".
> 
>     Entitlement could be said to be a psych term that describes certain
> people that believe that since they have the fortune to discover a sequence
> of 1s and 0s, that they have the right of dominion over that sequence for
> all eternity. As if they are entitled to it by divine right! Now, that's
> entitlement, if you ask me.
> 
>     Sandra, sorry, but people who side with me, we hardly ever find
> loopholes that work in our favor. You don't have to worry about that. I'm
> afraid that perk belongs to billion dollar companies and their teams of
> canibalistic corporate lawyers.
> 
> 
> John
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