At 08:21 PM 11/28/00 -0800, Ray Dillinger wrote:
I see no reason why I personally should be called upon to be part of that machinery though -- nor any good reason why, if called, I should comply.
Well, I'm into Thoreau too. Even swam in his pond once. The point of any serious futurist (including JB) is to look to possibilities... AP is possible and probable... given certain infrastructures. Bell:AP::Tesla:AC Or not.
If the US could construct an anonymous payment system that only works for <insert country here>, they'd have uses for it.
Yep. This is pretty much my opinion about the whole assassination thing; if an anonymous market for assassination existed, people would be likely to use it the way the traditional assassination markets are used; Governments to eliminate dissidents, major corporations to eliminate competitors with better products and innovators with ideas that threaten major markets, and the sheeple to get rid of the people their spouses were sleeping with (or maybe their spouses). Millionaire brats would use it to accellerate their inheritances, rogue cops would use it to destroy people whom they were unable to get quality evidence on, etc... Bell's idea that government would feel the lash more deeply than anyone else is plain nuts IMO.
I can't argue with that. An armed, anonymous society is a damned polite society. Paraphrasing you know who.
Anybody want to bet Jeff Gordon has more money to spend on AP than James Bell? I mean, if it came down to it, who could afford to have whom eliminated?
Bear
If Alfred Nobel were blown up by dynamite, it would not be significant, only ironic. Cheers, DH