Re: Untraceable Payments, Extortion, and Other Bad Things

["Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>]

>You obviously (deliberately?) are misrepresenting May's comment above.  It 
>isn't that some kinds of evil are "no big deal":  It's that quantiatively, 
>refusing to accept a solution that would prevent, say, 100 deaths, simply 
>because it would cause _one_ DIFFERENT death is foolish and misguided.  
>
>If you feel inclined to deny this, consider the reverse situation:  Would 
>you approve of the saving of one life if it cost 100 lives?  (all things 
>being equal.)  While most people would feel uncomfortable being asked to 
>make decisions of this kind, that does not mean that one outcome is not 
>identifiably better than another.  

*I* am misrepresenting Timmy's statement?
please explain to me how anonymous extortion and kidnapping/ransom (what
Timmy was talking about) saves lives along the lines of the above 
reasoning...