[clue] Cory Doctorow - war on general computing [talk]

[Jon "maddog" Hall]

It is a combination of honor and law, and sometimes what we consider to
be "moral".

But is it honorable to rape a woman, or beat her?

It is honorable to run out on your family and leave them destitute?  To
cheat on your spouse?

To kill innocent civilians, old people and children, even in war?

These are things that (in my mind) are without honor, yet they happen
every day.

I use honor to guide my own life, and the law to protect me from other
people.

It, of course, helps to have honorable legislators and judges of those
laws.

Warmest regards,

maddog

On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 13:51 -0700, David L. Willson wrote:
> I have some. You have some. Every man I know well enough to say with confidence whether or not he has some, has some.
> 
> I infer from that, not without some trepidation, that every man has some.
> 
> I make an intuitive leap that honor has the same property that faith does. Even a very small amount, regularly exercised, can do great things.
> 
> David L. Willson
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > 
> > > Men, freely associated and joined by agreements that are as binding
> > > as their own sense of honor,
> > 
> > There be the rub...where is the honor?
> > 
> > md
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