Choose carefully

SteveDallas · 11-24-2008, 10:45 AM

In this interesting article on copyright, Cory Doctorow writes:

Quote:

If I sent you to a desert island and told you to choose between your records and your friends, you'd be a sociopath if you chose the music.

Well? What'll it be?

glatt · 11-24-2008, 10:49 AM

What kind of friend would I be if I wished my friends would also be stranded on a desert island? I choose music. Besides, the island's resources won't support more than one person, so I'd have to kill them anyway. Lord of the flies.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-24-2008, 10:53 AM

Can I take my music and a DJ?

Trilby · 11-24-2008, 11:02 AM

I'd take a friend. That way I could make a raft out of him.

bluecuracao · 11-24-2008, 11:13 AM

You can't eat records, can you?

TheMercenary · 11-24-2008, 11:51 AM

I choose friends so I can eat them when I run out of food.

classicman · 11-24-2008, 12:08 PM

If I chose my friends they'd all be pissed that I chose them and wouldn't be friends anymore.

Treasenuak · 11-24-2008, 12:32 PM

Friends. They taste better.

sweetwater · 11-24-2008, 12:57 PM

If I bring friends then we can make instruments and sing in harmony, too.

Shawnee123 · 11-24-2008, 01:00 PM

Kumbaya

Cicero · 11-24-2008, 01:41 PM

I have to agree with the above there. You are rotten if you ask your friends to stay stranded with you on an island. Of course I am a sociopath so I think "differently" about these things.

Juniper · 11-24-2008, 02:55 PM

I choose my friends -- that is friends, plural -- because eventually they would help me figure out how the hell to get off the island!

limey · 11-24-2008, 03:00 PM

Music, every time [/sociopath].

Juniper · 11-24-2008, 03:42 PM

Let me amend my previous answer.

There are days when I would WISH to be stranded on an island with nothing but music.

Those are the days when the people in my life are driving me NUTS.

In other words, 364 out of the year.

Aliantha · 11-24-2008, 03:47 PM

I'd choose my friends, the good ones who'd make excellent breeding stock and we'd forge our own civilization and all live happily ever after.

The rest of you can go sit in a sound booth for all we care.

View Poll Results: For my stay on a desert island, I choose...
My friends	19	65.52%
My music	10	34.48%
Voters: 29. You may not vote on this poll

11-24-2008, 10:53 AM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Can I take my music and a DJ? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-24-2008, 11:02 AM	#4
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I'd take a friend. That way I could make a raft out of him. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

11-24-2008, 11:51 AM	#6
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	I choose friends so I can eat them when I run out of food. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

11-24-2008, 12:08 PM	#7
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	If I chose my friends they'd all be pissed that I chose them and wouldn't be friends anymore. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

11-24-2008, 10:49 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	What kind of friend would I be if I wished my friends would also be stranded on a desert island? I choose music. Besides, the island's resources won't support more than one person, so I'd have to kill them anyway. Lord of the flies.

11-24-2008, 11:13 AM	#5
bluecuracao in a mood, not cupcake Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 3,034	You can't eat records, can you?

11-24-2008, 12:32 PM	#8
Treasenuak Multiorgasmic and wrapped in plastic Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Central Tennessee Posts: 483	Friends. They taste better.

11-24-2008, 12:57 PM	#9
sweetwater lives inside a Mobius strip Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1,120	If I bring friends then we can make instruments and sing in harmony, too. __________________ I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque! - Bugs Bunny

11-24-2008, 01:00 PM	#10
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Kumbaya __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

11-24-2008, 01:41 PM	#11
Cicero Looking forward to open mic night. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Mexico Posts: 5,148	I have to agree with the above there. You are rotten if you ask your friends to stay stranded with you on an island. Of course I am a sociopath so I think "differently" about these things. __________________ Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.- Carl Jung

11-24-2008, 02:55 PM	#12
Juniper I know, right? Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,539	I choose my friends -- that is friends, plural -- because eventually they would help me figure out how the hell to get off the island!

11-24-2008, 03:00 PM	#13
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Music, every time [/sociopath]. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

11-24-2008, 03:42 PM	#14
Juniper I know, right? Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,539	Let me amend my previous answer. There are days when I would WISH to be stranded on an island with nothing but music. Those are the days when the people in my life are driving me NUTS. In other words, 364 out of the year.

11-24-2008, 03:47 PM	#15
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I'd choose my friends, the good ones who'd make excellent breeding stock and we'd forge our own civilization and all live happily ever after. The rest of you can go sit in a sound booth for all we care. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

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