On Friday, November 1, 2019, 01:36:15 AM PDT, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Is it forgotten that... >> >> - No one but a troll, random or intentional, will list innocent people. >> - No assassin, but pure psycho or profiteer, will murder innocent people. >Is it forgotten so quickly that "the public lynch mob of normally good people" did in Richard Stallman, Jacob Applebaum and many others? What is your point? What was done to THEM, and ME, was done in a NON-AP world! By GOVERNMENT people, mostly, or people doing the government's bidding, Those facts establish the NEED for AP, not an argument against it!! It's truly amazing you act like you don't see this, >Is it forgotten that the "normally good humans" can overnight get out their pitch forks and torches, and pitch in that $5 to have "the evil pedophile Richard Stallman or was that Jacob Applebaum the rapist" murdered for the misdeeds? While there remains a huge power-structure called "the government" in existence, employing many millions of people, and taxing tens or even hundreds of millions of people, who is surprised that a relatively small number of them can get victimized, mostly because of the motivations of that government? So I ask again: "What is your point"? Are you implying that a well-functioning AP-type system will, NECESSARILY, work in a defective way similar to today's governments? How could it? Defend your claims! >When such a system is unleashed, and the "apparent" crime so motivates the crowd to become the mob, there is no court that the mob will ever defer to - the mob will simply ensure, post haste, that justice is first and foremost delivered! THAT sounds like a great description, of a great idea. Just not the idea you were thinking of. "We fail too often to properly consider human nature in aggregate."