On 6 Jun 96 at 17:55, jim bell wrote:

At 02:47 PM 6/6/96 +0000, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:

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On 6 Jun 96 at 11:19, jim bell wrote:

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I _do_ believe, however, that the number of people unjustifiably targeted will be rather low. <snip> Retaliation is possible, in that case.

Sorry Jim, I did not get that at all in the past. I assumed a context where the inner workings of AP would not be well understood by the population while here, you seems to indicate that everybody would operate under the threat / deterrance of mutual anihilation principle.

Hmmm... sorry, I thought that was obvious. Well, perhaps not "obvious," but it's one of those facts that will become second nature to people once AP starts up.

Well, yes and no. What made me change my mind is when I tried to see the situation from the standpoint of a guy from a thuggish mentality. Actually, it might not deter somebody else acting on the spur of the moment. Take a typical harsh divorce situation where peoples act in the most surprisingly irrationnal way. I think that ex-husbands or wifes would get targeted more than their fair share, and quite often, without any reasonable cause. JF DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee; Limoges porcelain, silverware and crystal JFA Technologies, R&D consultants: physicists, technologists and engineers. PGP keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891