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- From: ekirby@buckeye.boeing.com (Elizabeth Kirby)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Hemingway's invention
- Message-ID: <86936@bcsaic.boeing.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 18:55:07 GMT
- References: <1992Nov8.000121.13660@ee.ryerson.ca>
- Sender: nntp@bcsaic.boeing.com
- Reply-To: ekirby@buckeye.boeing.com (Elizabeth Kirby)
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- In article <1992Nov8.000121.13660@ee.ryerson.ca>, elf@ee.ryerson.ca (luis fernandes) writes:
- |> I was reading a review of a Hemingway biography and it
- |> mentiones that Ernest Hemingway's father invented a medical
- *|> instrument which he refused to patent because "it would be wrong
- *|> to profit from something that benefits humanity."
- |>
- |> Would anyone know what that instrument is? The review does not
- |> mention it.
- |>
- |> --
- |> luis fernandes <elf@ee.ryerson.ca>
-
-
- It seems to me that it would be more wrong to
- profit from something that *doesn't* benefit at least
- *some* part of humanity! Seems to me that part of the
- logic that I understood about the idea of capitalism is
- that I'll do something that benefits you in exchange for
- your doing something that benefits me. Of course, that
- doesn't stop people from doing things without material
- reward if they like - it would be an interesting world if
- we all did that.
-
- "Throwing in her 2c worth" Beth
-