Re: Socio-Economic Cults (Re: Cypherpunk Cults)

[Ian Sparkes <isparkes@q9f47.dmst02.telekom.de>]

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At 14:43 28.08.97 +1000, you wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Adam Back wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>> If one person becomes too much of a nuisance (real trigger happy 
for
>> ultra minor infractions [...] relatives, friends, or concerned 
citizens
>> will correct (fill trigger happy person with lead).
>
>Dosn't help the poor person who got shot dose it?  Am I mad to 
beleave
>that getting killed is a reduction of basic civil liberties?
>
>> That's how the wild west worked anyway... outlaws didn't last that
>> long.
>
>Nor did the wild west.
>

And nor the innconent bystanders. The 'you pissed me off - bang bang 
you're dead' mentality was the reason for one of the largest 
genocides in human history.

>> So you're relying on other peoples sense of fairness ... should 
easily
>> work out better than governments.
>
>So I am relying on peaple basicly being fair.  On that ground we 
might as
>well have no laws because everybody will just act fairly.
>

People, and indeed all animals, are inherently selfish. That's life. 


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