From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 00:28:43 MDT
From: "Damien Broderick" <damienb@unimelb.edu.au>
> At 08:50 PM 6/14/03 -0700, Mike wrote:
>
> >Imagine, hundreds of burning oil rigs, hit by private GPS guided cruise
> >missiles, and Iraqi oil tankers sunk by private submarines.... how ya
> >like them apples?
>
> I hate them apples. It'd be a really good way of wasting a vast amount of
a
> diminishing resource while polluting the atmosphere and ocean.
On a smaller scale, this kind of reminds me of (from Ayn Rand's The
Fountainhead) Howard Roark blowing up his own building, rather than letting
his design be be compromised. Lots of people in America lived in hovels
then (as they do now). Lots of people in America couldn't sit at certain
lunch counters then (even at the oh-so-elegant Woolworth's, for pity's
sake). And Roark is blowing up a skyscraper because of a few tchachkes.
Olga
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