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> But she also has posted her viruses on her homepage -- meaning
> anyone else could release them.
>
> "That's not my problem," she says. "When people make guns, can you
> blame them when somebody else kills [somebody] with them? I only
> write them; I don't release them."

Ah yes, the time-honored V-2 rocket philosophy: "I just zend ze
rockets up; who cares vere zey come down?"

The real meat and potatoes of this story, ladies and gentlemen, is
that this is just another amoral, completely self-absorbed teenager
who believes that only her code matters. The Internet and the rest of
the world are there solely for the purpose of providing her with a
place to parade her sociopathic ego. I'm torn between anger at her
parents for having nurtured such a dysfunctional personality, empathy
for her hapless victims, and sadness for the pathetic creature she is
quickly becoming. Intelligence without ethics is what produced
nuclear weapons, and a host of other technologies which by any
objective definition must be termed insane. The problem with
teenagers who think they're smarter than anyone else (and I know; I
was one of them) is that eventually someone smarter comes along and
kicks your butt. That experience is traumatic for anyone, but for
someone like this, whose world view essentially centers around her own
perceived superiority, it can be utterly devastating.

You know why they call it a 'virus?' Because it is a self-replicating
pathogen: an organism which invades and destoys other organisms as
part of its life cycle. People who create pathogens are not smart,
nor are they contributing anything to society. They're simply giving
themselves a psychological boost at the expense of others.

Another word for this sort of behavior is terrorism, but at least most
terrorists think they're acting on behalf of a cause, no matter how
perverse it may seem to the rest of us.

So, if I bury an antipersonnel mine in her garden and she's "stupid"
enough to step on it and be maimed or killed, that's her problem,
right? I mean, I just plant them, I don't tell people to step on
them.

Get a life of your own, little geek, and stop using other people for
your own vicarious gratification. There's already too much of that in
this world.

RGF

Robert G. Ferrell
rferrelltexas.net
 

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