Re: Ayn Rand on Criminal Businessmen

["Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>]

Declan McCullagh wrote:

>On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Charles Behney wrote:
>
>> Here's the Ayn Rand definition of a criminal under current US Code:
>
>First question: Who cares what Ayn Rand thinks?

Well, I have seen more people who claim to care what Ayn Rand thinks than I
have seen people who claim to care what Declan McCullagh thinks.  Of
course, I have not taken a scientific sampling.  :-)

>Ethics are one thing. The law is another.

Yes, but I don't see how this invalidates Charles's point.  Just because
the law and ethics are different does not mean that looking at Microsoft
from an ethical rather than a legal point of view is somehow invalid.



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