Re: Steve Mentzer: Pirate. You are no longer welcome.

[dastar@crl.com (Sam Ismail)]

gudath@ubaclu.unibas.ch wrote:

: No. I do not agree with many of Nathan's views, but his not doing all this for
: his own profit or for becoming some kind of a leader. He's just trying to stop
: people from posting how supercool pirating is, and why everyone should ignore
: the law. If you really want a parallel to the Nazi Regime, then I can only tell
: you that the lack of people like Nathan have certainly been one reason why
: Hitler has been successfull: people who oppose themselves to the mainstream
: because they recognize that the current direction may bring some temporary
: profit (Hitler *did* some good things for the Germans) but is dangerous and
: hazardous in the long run. It's very simple to criticize those because you can

Ok Socrates, how does your comparison work here?  You are comparing the
"current direction" (which I can only assume to mean "pirating software")
and saying that it will "bring some temporary profit" (then you say
"Hitler *did* some good things for the Germans", as if pirating did some
good things for the Apple ][).  Did you even attempt to make any sense
in that analysis?

: One reason why the comparison fails is because an entire generation had already
No, it failed because you came up with a comparison that actually wasn't a
comparison, just so that you could claim that the comparison failed.

: Despite the last paragraph, I still refuse making any links to the Nazis.
: Remember, people *died* and some who were fighting might even read this
: newsgroup.

Um, Steve made the better argument.  I'm going to have to side with his
comparison of Nathan to a Nazi.

: I'm sorry for this off-topic posting.

I'm not.
-- 
Sam
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