That's why it's best to look for win-win solutions. Otherwise, someone's going to find a win-lose one, and you might be on the wrong end of a magnifying glass.
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
Of Robert Gordon
Sent: Friday, February 12, 1999 6:46 AM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: RE: virus: Are we the gods of Nature?
In response to Bob G's question "why try to fight Nature",
Richard wrote:
>Because I don't like ants at my picnic.
OK
Maybe the ants don’t like you!
They are following Nature…yet you don’t like them.
So your basis of Ethics is "If-I-don’t-like-it-I-can-kill-it"?
Huh?
Ok, you might say: "Well, I’m bigger than the ants, I’m
more "intelligent", I’m at level 3 damn it and I have the
right to say ‘No ants at my picnic by golly’"
Fine.
You ever see that commercial on television where the little
kid is trying to burn some ants with a magnifying glass?
And then something bigger comes along with a bigger
magnifying case and starts to burn the kid?
Ok.
I rest my case.
Bobby G <----------- not burning any ants...
....something bigger just might come along.