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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (47580)3/2/2002 7:57:51 PM
From: QwikSand  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
You make it sound like it's wrong to ask that others be stopped from violating the law to one's detriment. It's not.

I don't mean to make it sound that way. I agree, it's not. I'm asking for consistency.

I think there's still a big question whether Enron management violated laws in more than a minor / technical way; my understanding continues to be that their accounting schemes were considered acceptable by both their accountants and lawyers.

That's a slippery slope. We already know, for example, that the upheld Microsoft violations that you and I (or at least I) might consider flagrant/serious, people on the Microsoft thread consider minor/technical. The same kind of divide exists around the Enron story. I see people on SI asserting that Enron management is a bunch of intrepid John Galt-style entrepreneur-heroes, and others who say they're just a bunch of crooks. In any case, whatever Enron did created a lot of innocent victims regardless of what the objectivists say. The innocent victims in the Microsoft case, in the sense of people who have suffered evident, calculable damages, you must admit are harder to find. In both cases, the law is for the government to enforce and shore up if necessary, the extent of the violation is for the courts to decide, and I don't really understand why McNealy views them so differently.

--QS
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