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In article <haney.688605042@moonshine> haney@moonshine.llnl.gov (Scott W. Haney) writes:
>>	Also, you have no obligation to provide people with helpful
>>information about the Macintosh any more than a chemistry student
>>should feel obligated to sell terrorists on nerve gas.  You need not
>>point out opportunities for people to gain by doing things that have
>>a negative tota effect, like producing nerve gas or buying from Apple.
>
>To compare Apple's business practices with terrorists producing nerve
>gas is absolutely outrageous.  Please get some perspective.

	I used the terrorists as an extreme an example in order to
highlight the harmfulness of insisting that people have an obligation
to point out opportunities for other to gain by doing things that have
a negative sum effect.  I guess it just wasn't obvious to you that
I was using an extreme example.

>In addition,
>don't the means that arnej@lise.unit.no proposes for influencing people
>at the university bother you?  Or is it "the means justifies the ends"
>when talking about Apple?

	Don't put words in my mouth.  I don't see anything unethical
about arnej's plan, even ignoring the nobleness of his objective.

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