Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: in-tree pristines fatally wounded (merge-fest etc)

[Thomas Zander]

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On Saturday 06 December 2003 17:47, Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > The fact is that in modern democratic societies the crisis of social
> > responsibility is not among the powerful.[1]  It's among the _weak_,
> > and
 especially the middle classes, who use their weakness as an excuse
> > for turning a blind eye to the excesses of the powerful, which they
> > could easily curb, simply by refusing the bribes offered by the rich. 
> > And among the "moral left", who prefer to meaninglessly denounce the
> > abuses of the powerful and demand "social responsibility", while
> > themselves turning a blind eye to the hypocrisy of the majority.
> 
> This is the same ignorance of social realities as one can find with Ayn
> Rand. It completely ignores the social effect of economic forces. Not
> playing by the rules of the powerfuls can have drastic consequences, what
> are the alternatives?

You know the Boston Tea Party? (16 dec 1773) It kind of proves you wrong...

If the stong set rules that the weak have to follow then those weak poeple 
still have a collective choice to ignore the strong.

I recently saw a re-hash of the above event here:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031204195915515
Some two screens down..

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Thomas Zander
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