<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 February 2013 00:56, Richard Stallman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rms@gnu.org" target="_blank">rms@gnu.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Anyway, this is not a chain, it is a set of ethical rules<br>
that my principles require me to follow. I hope that you too<br>
have a conscience and that it sometimes requires you not to<br>
do things in certain ways.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Here is the core of the problem, the ethical principles involved (and not Richards!). </div><div><br></div><div>What are the pirate principles ethicly worth ? Is there something like pirate ethics? </div>
<div>I looked, I asked, and it is still not clarified. </div><div>Understand me well, I am not saying that there are no ethics at all, but the interpretation is so unclear that these kind of discussions will, somewhat unnecessary, keep on reoccurring, that is a promise until we find that balance in activism, idealism, realism and pragmatism. I believe this is possible through working towards a consensus about these ethics based on the pirate core principles. As long as the good will is there.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks Richard for your input,</div><div><br></div><div>mrNatural</div></div>