Originally posted by Bill Miller:
Why would someone that protests illegal parts 'deserve' [sic] ridicule and ostracism? This kind of attitude is a) pretty disturbing, and 
one of the reasons why we keep hearing that everyone in IT is cheating.
Bill,
It's kind of like driving from your house ten miles in any direction without breaking a traffic law, almost impossible. For example, how many people give a turn signal before turning out of their driveway? We went through all this and I have a feeling you are baiting me in an attempt to have me say cheating is OK, and I'm going to quote Thomas Jefferson:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ..."
No, Bill, I don't think cheating is OK, but I do think that when rules are inadequately prescribed and rulesmakers refuse to go to the effort to perfect them, they must be dealt with in whatever fashion reasonable men find available.
Who decides when they are inadequate and establshes the available means? The community that must operate within those rules.
GRJ
In the words of the indomitable Bad Al Bell,
"Class dismissed." (Which I consider the best line in this whole harangue.)
[This message has been edited by grjones1 (edited August 06, 2004).]
[This message has been edited by grjones1 (edited August 06, 2004).]
