[Openmcl-devel] process-run-function and mach ports usage

[mikel evins]

On Feb 24, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Tim Bradshaw wrote:

> On 24 Feb 2011, at 16:54, Ron Garret wrote:
> 
>> Why?  This is exactly as it should be.  Just because people don't like to overtly face the fact that life has a finite value doesn't change the fact.
> 
> Well, mostly I said it was a joke to avoid the standard "oh, how *could* you say such a horrible thing!" response I normally get.  I'm glad I've got the opposite response.

David D Friedman observed once that people like to say that human life is of infinite value, but they don't act as if they think it's true. If they did, then there would be no market for fast foods or automobiles.