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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! :)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.022137.23787@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec27.035536.7481@tc.cornell.edu> <Bzwwrn.8uM@csulb.edu> <1992Dec29.013546.3647@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <C074A6.DGA@csulb.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 02:21:37 GMT
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- In article <C074A6.DGA@csulb.edu>, sichermn@csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
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- |> It
- |> may indeed be true that slavery was, by legal standards of the time,
- |> fair in some arcane sense. I was making a legal claim, however, not a
- |> moral one so the analogy is inappropriate.
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- I'm not trying to draw an analogy--I'm trying to say that our laws should be
- moral. And I'm also saying that the laws which the FTC are using are
- immoral because they sanction theft.
-
- |> I see, you have been a party to the negotiations and have seen the terms
- |> and conditions of the contracts. What, no ?
-
- Why no--have you? If so, tell us about it.
-
- |> then you perhaps are making
- |> speculations and assumptions like the rest of us instead of speaking from
- |> facts.
-
- Perhaps you're doing the same thing?
-