Frank Cox wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:01:37 +0700
Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But, now I've just found out how DIRTY M$ is in doing their business.
This is news?
Actually, I really fail to see the reason for all of the outrage and fur flying
around this issue.
Because corruption is evil /per/ /se/.
The entire experiment of liberal democracy, as outlined by theorists in
the early 18th century, and first put to a large-scale test in the
United States a few generations later, is dependent on the assumption
that those in power will act honestly and in accordance with their best
judgment, and that, if they do not, those that they rule will come to
know of it, and, knowing, will eject them from their offices, putting
into their places worthier occupants. Whenever that assumption is
subverted -- it need not be in the political sphere -- any liberal
society is endangered. In times such as these, when extremists in all
parts of the world, in Iran, in China, even in the United States, are
challenging liberalism's foundations, moreover, the very name of
"liberalism" itself, it behooves us all to condemn those who undermine
the system from within, with their nudges, and winks, and attitude of
"business is business."
If we do not relearn how to be outraged, rest assured that outrages will
be committed upon us.
--
John W. Kennedy
"Compact is becoming contract,
Man only earns and pays."
-- Charles Williams. "Bors to Elayne: On the King's Coins"
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