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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Way OT: Adam Smith and Software Markets
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
:  Anyway, this notion that people are
: helpless zombies susceptible to mind control manipulation by cabals
: and conspiracies, rather than free-willed and thinking individuals
: who take in avalilabale information and then make up their own minds
: is a favorite leftish notion,

Why is it that programmers known to be careful abandon careful
analysis when it comes to "social matters"?
This sentence doesn't exclude that it might as well be
a conservative ethologist's favourite notion.