On Monday, January 7, 2002, at 12:39 AM, Petro wrote:
On Sunday, January 6, 2002, at 06:37 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
Nor do I. If the neighbor's kid wants to steal my overweight television or 233-MHz PC, it's not worth killing him for,
Bill is of course welcome to invite the neighbor's kids to steal his stuff. My mileage varies. I think it is a moral necessity to kill anyone trying to steal anything (beyond the utterly trivial or confusable, e.g., one should not kill someone picking up a toy left out in the yard...might be a mistake, he might be trying to return it, etc.). Someone stealing a television or PC has certainly earned killing. This is what strong crypto will make more possible: the deliverance of strong vengeance, untraceably. (Hint: This preceeded Jimbell by many years.) Fact is, many people have already earned killing. The only reason we cannot dispose of them is that liberal shits interfere with vengeance.
There are only 3 things in my home worth killing to protect: (1) My wife. (2) My self. (3) My guns.
Again, my mileage varies. And since I decide what is important to me, it's "my house, my rules."
I don't mind that a lot of people are liberal pansies who believe thieves are not worthy of killing. However, if they help to pass laws restricting my own choices, then they have earned killing themselves. Certainly nearly every member, with but a handful of exceptions, of Congress has earned the death penalty many times over. --Tim May "How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive?" --Alexander Solzhenitzyn, Gulag Archipelago