-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 14:43 28.08.97 +1000, you wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Adam Back wrote:
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If one person becomes too much of a nuisance (real trigger happy for ultra minor infractions [...] relatives, friends, or concerned citizens will correct (fill trigger happy person with lead).
Dosn't help the poor person who got shot dose it? Am I mad to beleave that getting killed is a reduction of basic civil liberties?
That's how the wild west worked anyway... outlaws didn't last that long.
Nor did the wild west.
And nor the innconent bystanders. The 'you pissed me off - bang bang you're dead' mentality was the reason for one of the largest genocides in human history.
So you're relying on other peoples sense of fairness ... should easily work out better than governments.
So I am relying on peaple basicly being fair. On that ground we might as well have no laws because everybody will just act fairly.
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