Re: virus: Tabacco mind virus: antivirii

Eric Boyd (6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca)
Fri, 01 Aug 1997 14:41:51 -0500


Tony Hindle wrote:

> Wrong again Eric, it just makes me a hypocrit and there are no
> laws against that.

but there should be...

> Actually I would take FULL responsibility if I could. I just
> dont think the law would allow for such a complex position: I am
> responsible for peruading A to kill B which saved C and D. I therefore
> acted to save a life.

I don't think it's that simple, either. You will never be able to point
to person's "C" and "D", becuase they will, by definition, be people
who's lives where (because of *your* memes) *unaffected* by tObacco.
But there are millions of people already who's lifes are like that. So
it is the teeming crowds that you are saving, Tony, not individual (i.e.
specific) people.

ERiC