-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Tim wrote:

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Someone stealing a television or PC has certainly earned killing.

Anyone who thinks this sounds too extreme really should read the newspaper sometime for the many accounts of people being murdered in cold blood after giving up property to their assailants without a fight. Last week in the UK there was a story about a woman being murdered for her cell phone, of all things. Who in their right mind would rely on scum criminals to play by the same middle-class standards of behavior as they normally do? So if you don't know if your robber will take your life for something as absolutely trivial as your athletic shoes, surely defending yourself by killing them first when they're trying to steal your PC or TV is warranted. And if you're comfortable living in a booby-trapped house, more power to you, but this probably isn't the best option for regular people with families, kids and visitors.

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This is what strong crypto will make more possible: the deliverance of strong vengeance, untraceably.

Mainly it's going to make vengeance easier for people who lack a sufficient level of commitment to the idea of taking responsibility for going all the way themselves. I hate to break this to you, but people hire contract killers every single day. For example, any lard-assed schizophrenic coward parasitically sponging welfare in a foreign country can push a few keys and put a four-dollar bounty on my head online; but it would take someone of a far hardier breed to get organized and lay out the $5000 bucks for a halfway decent hit man. (data point from personal experience: I used to know a woman who dated one.) Crypto-anarchy notwithstanding, I don't think any amount of crypto will ever be able to keep the vast majority of lard-assed schizophrenic cowards from making enough mistakes to get caught or iced first. And since the L-ASCs are likely to make up a disproportionate percentage of the demand for such services, it's probably not going to be as dire a situation as some people would like you to think.

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(Hint: This preceeded Jimbell by many years.)<<

Speak of the devil.

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Fact is, many people have already earned killing. The only reason we cannot dispose of them is that liberal shits interfere with vengeance.

Feds, Thugs, Overmen and L-ASCs alike: if you've given up on the idea of the constitution and rule of law, the only thing in this world that could stop you is your own personal sense of prudence. ~Faustine. *** As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.... There is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we must be most aware of change in the air however slight lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. - --William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.1 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com wl4EARECAB4FAjw7bwAXHGZhdXN0aW5lLkBodXNobWFpbC5jb20ACgkQGwpHwwWoj8Xn hACfTaCpKm3iUxZHodG6cvWXaIznr9wAn2j7EOapLXwp7lj0bbLXg7e96b/O =L4M3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----