The predators have invaded my blog, offering naked poker. The state of Minnesota does much the same thing, at casinos. And then there are all those alleged Africans who email me, eager for me to help them rip off millions. Predators all, big and small.
Civilization is founded on acts of unspeakable generosity, people who got books or outrigger canoes or paintings perfect, so they would endure, when good enough would have been ok to get them paid.
To keep civilization going, there must be pure generosity some places, free lunch, free literature, or people will lose the trick. For some things, even a hint of a fee is deadly. It's the extension of the sin of simony; to give people any reason at all to say, "Predation, after all."
Posted by shea0017 at May 16, 2005 10:23 PM