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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: "Starter Villain" by John Scalzi
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 19:41:50 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Mike Van Pelt  <usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:
>In article <off12k52ohmjaq946ba6748qmnpj9r9b0b@4ax.com>,
>Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>It wasn't just the royals. They made being an aristrocrat (there
>>may have been some conditions) a capital crime.
>
>They murdered some top notch scientists who happened to have
>been born into the aristocracy.  Lavosier being a famous example.

This is true although Lavoisier was kind of a special case, what with
being in the munitions industry.  (On the other hand, he did help out
in the American revolution, teaching DuPont how to make proper gunpowder,
which maybe could have been a mitigating factor for the French 
revolutionists.)
--scott

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