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[Fedor Pikus]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Brian Beattie <beattie at beattie-home.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 08:32 -0800, Fedor Pikus wrote:
>  > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com>
>  > wrote:
>  >
>  > > >>>>> "Fedor" == Fedor Pikus <fpikus at gmail.com> writes:
>  > >
>  > > Fedor> "We've built such a wonderful thing for the community, there's no
>  > > way
>  > > Fedor> anyone would abuse it, fail to share it courteously, or otherwise
>  > > not
>  > > Fedor> be inspired to become the best possible community member. All
>  > > people
>  > > Fedor> are good, kind, and compassionate, unless forced against their
>  > > nature
>  > > Fedor> to be selfish".
>  > >
>  > > Is that a quote, or just a parody of the typical confused socialist
>  > > thinking
>  > > pattern?
>  >
>  >
>  > It's not an exact quote, but I've seen this sentiment expressed by the
>  > confused socialist thinkers before.
>
>  I really think you are twisting peoples words and intentions, you're not
>  one of those naive Libertarians who thinks that we can all just get
>  along without controls to keep the wealthy elite from ganging up on
>  everybody else like they have been for the past 20 years, are you?

No, I'm anything bat naive, and I think that without controls you'd
find out what "ganging up" really means (and the last 20 years will
seem like the good time).

>
>  Yes I am a socialist (small s) and no I don't think people a Angels, be
>  they poor or rich.
>
>  >
>  > >
>  > >
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>  A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>  Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing?
>
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