Re: From Barrett Brown
Subject: Re: From Barrett Brown
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 12/21/09, 18:26
To: r.s.mccain@att.net

Sir-

The word "offer" does not necessarily entail anything positive at all, much less anything along the lines of "charity" or "generosity." Notice that I have used the term interchangeably with "challenge" and that I originally compared it to a duel, for instance. I am not extending this offer as any sort of good deed, although to the extent that you are actually in the right, such an offer as this would indeed be to your benefit. I am extending it to you for the same reason that you are declining it - because I would win any such exchange.

Regards,

Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:07 PM, <r.s.mccain@att.net> wrote:

"Offer"? As if you were the soul of generosity, and I in need of your philanthropy. Do your work, do it well, collect your pay and knock it off with the humanitarian posturing. You've never done an unselfish act in your life, and by pretending otherwise, you undermine your own credibility. Better to be honestly selfish than to be falsely charitable.

-- RSM