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Omega Man
Did you steal this from Ayn Rand, too? Sounds like it.
Kent
-----Original Message-----
From: The Omega Man <editorial@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Mark Brown <markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Omega List <>
Date: Friday, September 18, 1998 11:18 PM
Subject: MARK BROWN HAS ACHIEVED NOTHING
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>Mark Brown wrote:
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><<My intent is to get Bill Cruz off his ass and give me a 4.0 software
patch
>so I can continue to use the software I bought from him.>>
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>My intent is to fight the idea, your idea, that your need is a sacred idol
>requiring human sacrifices - that your need is a guillotine which hangs
over
>the lives of other men - that all of us must live with our work, our hopes,
>our plans, our efforts at the mercy of the moment when your knife of need
>will descend upon us - and that the extent of our ability is the extent of
>our danger, so that success will bring our heads down on the block, while
>failure will give us the right to pull the cord. This is the horror you
>represent as an ideal of righteousness.
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>You seek to practice charity with wealth you do not own, by giving away
>goods you have not produced. You are the symbol of the idea that need, not
>achievement, is the source of rights, that we don't have to produce, only
to
>want, that the earned does not belong to those who have earned it, but that
>the unearned belongs to those who have not.
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>You are the justification for every mediocrity who, unable himself to
>produce, demands the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by
>proclaiming a willingness to devote his life to robbing them. You are the
>parasite which men have come to regard as a moral ideal - the blood sucking
>leech - attached to the real value producer.
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>You represent a world in which the more a man produces, the closer he comes
>to the loss of all his rights, until, if his ability is great enough, he
>becomes a rightless creature delivered as prey into your grasp - while in
>order to be placed above rights, above principles, above morality, placed
>where anything is permitted to you, even plunder and murder, all you have
to
>do is be in need. You are what I am fighting, Mr. Brown. Until men learn
>that, of all human symbols, you represent the most immoral and most
>contemptible, there will be no justice on earth.
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>The Omega Man
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