On Thu, Nov 13, 1997 at 05:59:51AM -0000, Secret Squirrel wrote: [...]
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death." -- Patrick Henry
What is life without liberty? Abject slavery. Any sane man would rather die than be a slave.
It makes nice rhetoric, but this is simply not true, you know. Most people correctly evaluate that you have no chance for freedom at all if you commit suicide, whereas a slave *does* have a chance. But of course we know from game theory that being completely predictable can be a weakness. So having a certain percentage of the population who will behave irrationally is probably necessary for the health of a society. But if too many people act irrationally, society will disintegrate. (By "irrational" here I am referring to behaviour clearly contrary to your own survival.) -- Kent Crispin "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html