On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:53:36 +1100 Zenaan Harkness wrote:

Unfortunately it seems he's so unbelievably stubborn, yet blind, that there's always the chance he could encourage one or two equally stupid and stubborn individuals to join him in his quixotic windmill fight, and just happen to throw civilization into a lorenzian butterfly chaotic alternator.

I know some would prefer a period of total chaos to what we have now,

I vote for chaos. It's the only thing that can prevent "the ultimate revolution" Aldous Huxley - The Ultimate Revolution (Berkeley Speech 1962) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WaUkZXKA30 disclaimer : I got the idea from assange who said something like "only a global catastrophe can stop the surveillance state". Not any of those words prolly because I can't find the original quote =/ But you get point...

but the consequences of living in that post-AP world look quite possibly very unpleasant from where I stand..

I think Jim is either partially confused, or baiting and switching. An hypothetical tool to eliminate tyrants (or anybody else), and the production of security in a libertarian enviroment, are two different things. Yet Jim confuses them.