| From: | Michael Broadwater <mbroadwa@*******.GLENAYRE.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Runner's Attitudes |
| Date: | Wed, 2 Jul 1997 15:09:18 -0500 |
>On 1 Jul 97 at 23:24, Paul J. Adam wrote:
>
>>
>> The mere fact that a target is a megacorporation doesn't change the
>> financial cost of a given run against it, and your fixation that every
>> run against any megacorp involves a cost of billions is the crux of the
>> problem here. If the cost is small, the benefit of pursuit is similarly
>> small.
>
> That's half the crux. I get the distinct impression that Bob
thinks all
>runners are pond scum, low-lives, street trash and rank amatuers. He
>seems to think that there are no professionals in the shadow business,
>that they are all lying, thieving criminals. That a very limit view of a
>very diverse group. Obviously *some* runners fit into that category, but
>there are plenty who don't.
Yeah, they're are all those heroe's out there that are clean cut, wonderful
people with no problems with society, and that's why they run the shadows
rather than use their skills to a productive end. I mean, they learned all
that great stuff at the corp and left because the corps are bad mean
people. Or they learned it in the military because gov't's are all bad
mean people. And now they run against corps and the gov't for other corps
and gov't's and don't worry about killing because, of course, if you work
for a corp, you aren't trying to feed your family and be a good member of
society, you're one of the bad mean people who's bringing down the world
with your crimes. You know, you kill people. Oh, and shadowrunners who do
are different. They're heroes of the common man. You know, that ones that
work at corps and try to be a productive member of society. But not ones
you encounter. Those are all bad mean people, and shadowrunners are heroes
and great guys. Yeah!
Sure.
Rasputin-the-trying-to-get-into-an-Sr-book-magekin
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