From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 18:10:15 MDT
> (Barbara Lamar <barbaralamar@sanmarcos.net>):
>
> Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
> > I share you repugnance, but not because it's "greed"--that's a
> > noble thing.
>
> I'll avoid doing business with you, Mr. Crocker, if you believe that "an
> excessive desire to acquire or possess, as wealth or power, beyond what one
> needs or deserves" is a noble thing.
I couldn't have said it better myself. What's evil is trying to
acquire things through violent or fraudulent means. If one wants
to acquire wealth and power by means of free exchange with other
free individuals, the more the better--that's what makes the world
a better place, and why we're all here. I want to live forever,
have wealth beyond imagination, the power to mold galaxies to my
whim--but I want to /earn/ it, not take it by force.
"Need" and "deserve" are empty, meaningless concepts.
-- 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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