HW: Full Hawkestra set available for trade

M Holmes fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK
Tue Feb 19 06:44:51 EST 2002


Paul Mather writes:

> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, M Holmes wrote:
>
> => Don't go here. It's a *religious* argument for some of the folks on
> => neo-quark and asking for two blanks in trade is regarded as some form of
> => usury. For the enlightened, the mere act of spreading the neo-quark
> => creed is reward in itself. For us unenlightened capitalist running dogs,
> => we must satisfy ourselves with the lowly pleasures of The Extra Blank.
>
> Fortunately, there's room for more than one religion and credo in the
> world, so we can all be happy (even Mike:). ;-)
>
> (I didn't mean to kick off a firestorm with this.  I was just trying to
> point out that if you wanted to get the Hawkestra set for 5 blanks
> instead of 10, then neo-quark was a better place to do it.  Besides,
> you capitalists are all for a bit of price competition, aren't you?;)

Indeed. I keep telling friends that this is why Libertaria will be full
of socialists.

Of course the Randians would have something to say about the kind of
altruism that makes someone slave over a hot CD-writer all day, but we
don't want to go there either ;-)

> Paul.

FoFP



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