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		qqqqq5 on April 3, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open letter to Blackboard: $1M to charity if you d... This analogy would work if killing someone for profit was legal.

donaq on April 6, 2009 [–]

The discussion is not about legality. I was responding to the OP saying that we shouldn't "blame Blackboard for bad behaviour" because if they hadn't done it, then someone else would have done it anyway. Hence the analogy is valid.

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