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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2011-10-07

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"Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality." -- Friedrich Nietzsche

[To my Jewish friends: sorry I didn't manage to come up with a suitable quotation for Yom Kippur -- may you have an easy fast, and (if I've got this right), G'mar Hatimah Tovah.]

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posted by [personal profile] nancylebov at 09:56am on 2011-10-07
No important difference between buying and selling as compared to stealing? I wonder what history he was referring to-- I haven't heard this elsewhere. It's conceivable that some pirates evolved into merchants, but it would surprise me very much if all merchants have some pirate in their lineage.

What did Nietzsche have in mind (if anything) as an alternative way of handling property?


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eftychia: A musical Jolly Roger using a tambourine, a pair of zills, a keychain-sized set of panpipes, and two soprano recorders (JollyRoger)

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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 06:15pm on 2011-10-07
"It's conceivable that some pirates evolved into merchants, but it would surprise me very much if all merchants have some pirate in their lineage."

Or Nietzsche was engaging in hyperbole ...
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