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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: More Gun Control
- Message-ID: <1k7oeo$iu3@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 04:46:16 GMT
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- In article <C1Jqs3.2q2@vcd.hp.com> dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe) writes:
- >curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
- >
- >>there are two reasons why people commit crimes:
- >>
- >>(1) because it's fun.
- >>and (2) because it pays.
- >
- >Certainly those reasons are true, but there not the only reasons. The guy
- >who is on an $85 per day coke habit (or whatever), is going to get those
- >85 bucks no matter what it takes, and it's usually crime.
-
- Also I should point out that crack costs about $5 a rock, and anyone
- capable of ingesting 17 such in a day is not a man; he is an elephant.
-
- But people like having money for other reasons than smoking crack, you
- know. If Marion can feed his $85/day crack habit through mugging and
- larceny, you can feed your $85/day Mercedes habit exactly the same way.
-
- c
- whose taste runs more to paper than to rock
-