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If I were thinking about embarking on some moderately sleazy career path, the thought of being remembered that way might put me off.
by byrneseyeview 18y ago
If I were thinking about embarking on some moderately sleazy career path, the thought of being remembered that way might put me off.
- yters 18y agoI don't understand why people care how they will be remembered.
- delackner 18y agoIn a purely selfish mindset, think of your heirs. I assume you care about them? It negatively impacts their happiness and wellbeing (acceptance by peers) if you happen to ben a truly-reviled human being.
- yters 18y agoOk, rephrased, I don't know why people guide their lives according to any criteria that obtain after they are dead.
- Prrometheus 18y agoLife is a work of art. I want mine to be beautiful.
- yters 18y agoLife is a pizza. I want mine to be pepperoni.
- tdavis 18y agoStrictly speaking, I agree with you. I ultimately don't care how I'll be remembered since I'll be dead, but life itself is much more fun when you aren't hated while living it, at least not by too many people. Also, for those people with a conscience, just the personal knowledge that one's success is "based on a lie" might well be enough to sour the flavor of that success. From what I've read, there's no evidence that Katz drank himself to death because he was overwrought with guilt caused by "stealing" ARC. I feel that if someone takes an existing program and re-writes it entirely in a more difficult language and creates very tangible improvements to it, it's not simple theft. Almost nothing is that black and white. Katz was, apparently, a guy with no friends who spent most of his time with strippers. I would probably drink a lot, too.