[Milton-L] Kerrigan, Rumrich, Fallon edn.

[FLANNAGAN, ROY]

Obscene to observe greed?  Some people think it is obscene to shop at WalMart, which I just did, because WalMart is pushing the smaller operator out of business.  I may have saved 17 cents on a roll of towels, and I may have been greedy in doing so, but to observe greed in myself and in others is not an obscene act.  War is an obscene act, yet we do that too.
 
In my old age, I believe more and more in original sin.
 
Roy F

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From: milton-l-bounces at lists.richmond.edu on behalf of Carrol Cox
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"FLANNAGAN, ROY" wrote:
>
> I would add to Hannibal Hamlin's words of good sense that professors and students tend to be driven to used copies of texts by inverse greed, to get something for nothing (or at least no profit goes to publishers or editors in the secondhand market).

_Individual_ 'greed' of this sort is a virtue. It is obscene to
criticize ordinary people for trying to save money.

Carrol

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