On 27 May 96 at 0:22, Subir Grewal wrote:
Real world anonymity is difficult to buy, and actions such as murder (or what you'd like to call "self-defense") take place in the real world.
But that is the principle by which AP operates. That *is* the whole point that seems to miss you: encryption technologies makes that perfectly feasible. I agree that it is a novelty in the history of humankind...
I'd expect a realization of AP to promote a great backlash from a variety of quarters. Such methods, besides being unethical, are probably going to be used as fodder to infringe the liberties of others.
During the transition period, definitely.
In other words, a witch-hunt will result, AP advocates marginalized (if they are discovered). My original reservations, on the grounds of unjust means still stand, maybe we can return to this discussion sometime later.
Why, is it becoming too hot? Are you tempted to send the cops at Jim Bell's place?
"Religious" fanatics have great appeal, I don't think even AP will make them "go away", the odds are they'll become martyrs. And we know where that takes us.
Against *whom* will they retaliate? And more down to earth, I bet that in the advent of AP becoming operationnal, their leaders will go down even faster than our own.
I wasn't talking about the legal system in an AP world, but the idea that AP is justice in some sense.
"In a competition between a pickpocket and a murderer, hte murderer always win" -Ayn Rand
Incidentally, a purely civil law court is what I'd like as well, and competing courts and arbitration systems sound good to me.
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