> Armel: as in the past such debates are mute and go nowhere; these days, fame and > fortunes are gained by those who copy the fastest and most efficiently or as one > of your most brilliant countrymen, H. Balzac, put it: "behind every fortune > there is a crime"; once you accept this you can go on with life... and don't > have to waste your time defending ideals which seem to be a thing of the past;
Well, there's this annoying achievement of mankind called "moral"...