Re: virus: Tabacco mind virus: antivirii
Tony Hindle (t.hindle@joney.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 2 Aug 1997 03:00:03 +0100
In message <33E23BFF.6E5E@qlink.queensu.ca>, Eric Boyd
<6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca> writes
>Tony Hindle wrote:
>
>> 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.
Exactly, thats why I would claim I was only joking. But the fact
remains that lives would be saved wether one could pinpoint which ones
or not.
Tony