On Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 10:09:29 AM PDT, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote: On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 05:04:21 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
To be sure, this doesn't bring the dead guy back to life. But I expect that in the large majority of cases, it would deter anybody who was thinking of killing the person with the PBB.
> But you can flip that around. Cops and soldiers are using such a system. So how would libertarians get rid of cops and soldiers? Or politicians. Absolutely true!!! Technology changes things, possibly a great deal.
You are presenting it as a way for innocent people to be protected. But it is also a way for the worst enemies of freedom to be protected. So libertarians should be thinking how to neutralize that sort of system =)
True, quite true. Or avoid it. Etc. That's one thing Cypherpunks should be doing, right now. Jim Bell