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Re: News Story ...(developers of VLC) consider themselves targeted...
de ... et al. 04/17/2006 07:58
John Jay Smith wrote:
> "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government
> has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't
> enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a
> crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking
> laws."
>
> I am trying to understand if this is a joke or a Science fiction
> statment.....
From <http://www.working-minds.com/ARquotes.htm>:
"Ayn Rand was one of the most inportant philosophers of the XXth
Century, and quotations from her work are both cogent and
thought-provoking. These bite-size pieces of her Objectivist philosophy
are taken from the wide-ranging elements of her career – fiction &
non-fiction writings, lectures, movie scripts, newspaper columns &
articles, and television & radio appearances."
I havn't read 'Atlas Shrugged', or a translation of it that i know of,
just came across that qoute some time ago.
IMO, good science fiction is, like philosophy, thought-provoking (and
both can be funny).
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