On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:08:39AM -0700, Tim May wrote:
At 9:51 AM -0700 4/10/01, Eric Cordian wrote:
DCF wrote:
Save that the Feds have no interest in proceeding against any list posters with cash and brains (or perhaps self-control).
I think the Bell case indicates the need for Cypherpunks to start writing code again, and stop engaging in meatspace theatrics.
First, Bell's actions are not the actions of most members of this mailing list. Frankly, this is a logical error: referring to "Cypherpunks" as a collective entity and then imputing the views or actions of a few to be the views or actions of the collective entity. The government does this routinely.
I believe this is called a 'reification' error -- a logical fallacy where the 'treatment of an analytic or abstract relationship as though it were a concrete entity' (young. p 109 from principia cybernetica). jim