From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 13:28:24 MDT
> (Wei Dai <weidai@eskimo.com>):
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:55:42AM -0400, Smigrodzki, Rafal wrote:
> > Lee Daniel Crocker [mailto:lee@piclab.com] wrote:
> >
> > forexample, and I don't rent John Travolta or Rene Zellweger movies on
> > the outside chance that some of my pennies might make their way to the
> > Church of Scientology.
> >
> > ### Renee Zellweger is a Scientologist?!!!
> >
> > I didn't know that. Thanks for the info, I'll never see any of her movies
> > again (I studiously avoid Travolta, Kidman, and Cruise already, although I
> > made an exception for "Vanilla Sky").
>
> Are you sure you guys are behaving rationally here? Suppose the movie is
> worth $10 to you, you only have to pay $7 to see it, and the marginal cost
> of showing the movie to an additional person is $3, then you're spending
> $3 of your money and $4 of other people's money to prevent some pennies
> going to the Church of Scientology. Wouldn't it be better to see the
> movie and donate $3 to an anti-Scientology organization or some other
> worthy cause?
That's actually a very good point. Maybe I'll change my strategy
to sending a donation to Operation Clambake when I rent one of those
movies.
> And what's the deal with not buying products made in China? What cause
> does that serve?
Slave labor. As long a China tolerates slavery, the U.S. should
not be trading with them. I don't buy that cultural relativist
nonsense--slavery is wrong, always has been wrong, and always will
be wrong, and must not be supported or tolerated.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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