-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Addressing Tim May, Anonymous <nobody@replay.com> wrote:
Do you really hope that D.C. gets nuked? Do other list readers agree? How many people would this kill? Over half a million live in the city proper, with millions more in the surrounding areas. You have now said that you would hope to see many of these millions of people killed.
There is probably a double standard in play here. (BTW, one advantage of persistent identity is that it creates a context for the discussion which makes it possible to explore deeper ideas.) Very few people eschew violence completely or are overly troubled by the deaths of innocents in the process...
You're not even the worst. Other posters have supported this kind of sickening violence even more openly. No one complains. Apparently everyone with an ounce of moral sense has left the list long ago.
..so when you claim that nobody with any moral sense would favor violence, you have essentially declared that most of the human race is without moral sense. It's an interesting proposition, but it is by no means obvious that it is true. Also, it is puzzling that you have singled out a few subscribers to this list for attention. There are literally millions of people all over the globe who are actively involved with planning and executing horrible acts of violence. In this company, the readers of this list are pretty insignificant. I do not know of a single act of violence associated with any list member. In practice, you would be hard pressed to find a more peaceful group anywhere in the world. One of the things that appeals to me about the tools the cypherpunks are developing is the likelihood that they will end war. What percentage of wars are instigated and organized by governments? That is, how many wars can we think of in which a war originated in the population of country and dragged its unwilling government into the fray? I cannot think of any. Monty Cantsin Editor in Chief Smile Magazine http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNG5O65aWtjSmRH/5AQEuOgf7BsFl/tp5UljPFWQQZH/hDN5koZkc6Jql NFddGqtcMVBPIumDjO1UuHy/whPmivLVEfsxgjX6LIr8N0eY1FREcJRkdSJKtcim PnbZe0FYcHOlnnBKo6SuA3eZIFrH6/zkcVaw9NaH3ewL3v3WfTnm/tio9nKuuWFc tPmDqRJJpAPhaseID4z9Jxlhb1l6Iq50CxoeD0vvjRkFdkx37bwG6zy/rzLSq7Y+ aX7BKUy5qHunYPHHSSot/qwWqLQByK2hwWR/Gm5mF+dQ7Jf+pC5uWUDHMJWJMyod HE89vd2JBMmOz5v4ar89pWGDNGiu9GJp/dW4F2K0ip/qU8Ktwt4YyA== =B0F/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----