[rescue] Do you remember when? Security software.....

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Aug 14 13:07:34 CDT 2003


On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 01:39 PM, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> "Sometimes I think no one understands that legal != ethical in all 
> cases.
>
> lawyers are trained that way on purpose.
>
> i can see the point, intellectually - how do you get people to agree
> on what the law is, unless you thrash it out and put it down in black
> and white?  and the corollary is that people who interpret the law
> must put their own morals and scruples aside and work only to the code
> everyone agrees on.

   I think the root of the problem is that people are no longer taught 
(or don't care to remember) the basics of "right" and "wrong".

> unfortunately, the approach produces the type of lawyers we all know
> and love - well, know - as a side effect.  and politicians...

   Sadly, yes. :-/

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire                 "You don't have Vaseline in Canada?"
St. Petersburg, FL                     -Bill Bradford



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