[56] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: LIVING WAGE SIT-IN AT HARVARD (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prez H. Cannady)
Thu Apr 19 23:23:55 2001
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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:19:16 -0400
To: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU
From: "Prez H. Cannady" <revprez@MIT.EDU>
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At 10:31 PM 4/19/01 , Sourav K. Mandal wrote
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>Why does that matter? By that logic, if I want a sweeter stereo than I
>can afford, it should be okay to steal the difference. Feel free to
>accuse me of moral absolutism ...
Where you're argument fails is your moral absolutism.
Objectivists are the most incapable capitalists because
of their inability to break their principles in favor
of coddling bleeding hearts. If you can get away with
stealing the difference, go ahead.
>If my family did not have the means to support me at MIT, I would have
>considered ROTC or a different school which is cheaper or had offered
>me a scholarship. I am in no way _entitled_ to attend MIT.
Exactly, but if you want it you do what's in your power to
gain it. My family DOESN'T have enough to send me here.
Fortunately, I'm poor and Black. Fortunately, I live in
a society of compassionate people who are willing to fork
over the dollars to send me here. Fortunately, I'm not
so squirrelly-ass-happy to give a shit about where the
papa comes from, just so long as I get mine.
Is that your chain? Run it.
>I have no quarrel with MIT's financial aid program -- every school
>should strive to admit the absolute best and the brightest. I just
>have a problem with tax dollars backing it up.
I got no problem with tax dollars backing my education.
I might have a problem forking over cash for somebody
else with no clear benefit for me. Like I said to the
reparations folk. If I were white, I wouldn't give a
shit what gains my ancestors made at your ancestors
expense. Still, if you send me the check I'm cashing
it.
Rev Prez
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