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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (15626)6/26/2002 5:57:38 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21057
 
Reparations are not sufficient for murder.

Well of course they aren't if you're into retribution, if your soul demands it, if you insist that, without it, the balance of the universe is at risk. That's the point of the exercise--to see what a system would look like without retribution as a factor. If your world view is so fixed on retribution that you can't even entertain the notion of a system without it, that you can't set it aside and take a fresh look, then you can't. That's OK. That doesn't say anything about my model other than it boggles your mind. I can live with that. Lots of things boggle my mind.



To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (15626)6/26/2002 6:15:24 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21057
 
You didn't answer THE crucial point:

Sorry, it looks like I forgot to answer it once again.

Suppose Bill Gates decides to kill you. What's to stop him?

Well, nothing. Same as now. If anyone wants to kill anyone, they do it. Nothing new there.

I would think that Bill Gates wouldn't want to get caught, though, because he could end up out of society for the rest of his life or dead. I wouldn't think that killing me would be worth that.