There are many issues one could legitimately argue regarding a policeman who accidentally kills a non-combatant bystander during a fight. But comparing such a policemen to a terrorist who deliberately targets non-combatants with a bomb is beyond the pale. That, but for my interruption, this comparison would have passed unremarked among the cypherpunks crowd is damning.
I think the point, Zooko, is that the sniper didn't "accidentally" kill the woman and her baby. It was a deliberate shot. If it wasn't a deliberate shot, then not only is the shooter criminally negligent, but so is the person who handed him the rifle.
Why I'm posting: I don't expect that merely because of my contradiction the more rabid cypherpunks will suddenly throw off their twin blinders of ideology and hatred. Neither do I desire that
There is no (or little) hatred of individuals here. There is hatred for ideologies, beliefs, and points of view. I don't hate you. I don't know you. I might hate you if I knew you, it is a stastically probability, but until we meet, who knows. I DO hate big intrusive governments. I don't see the problem there. I do hate the politics of the Big Lie, and the politics of mob rule. I don't see the problem there. I do hate spending 1/3 to 1/2 of my working hours supporting lazy good for nothing bums. No, I am not talking about welfare reciepents, I am talking about Government workers. I don't see a problem with this.
because there are a great number of silent readers of the cpunks list, and some of these people, perhaps being young or inexperienced, may consider such vile slanders to be self-evident truths if they continually see them pass unchallenged.
Post a challenge, not erroneous "facts".