From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 15:01:44 MST
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From: Technotranscendence
>But more seriously, do you think the rest of what the police do -- from
handing out tickets for people without up to date car registrations to
busting people for smoking pot and beyond -- is thereby all good and
fine? One point that Bruce L. Benson brought up in his _The Enterprise
of Law: Justice without the State_ -- aside from the fact that one can
have security without police -- is that it's usually far easier to
enforce bad laws than good ones. E.g., it's much harder to track down
the guy who stole your car stereo than it is to hassle pot smokers (and
growers). (We also see the money in law enforcement flowing that way.
The surveillance aircraft and the like are used to go after vice crimes
and not real crimes. That's where the big dollars go.)<
I'm not the best person to ask this of. I merely stated that the police
have helped me and I was damn glad that I called 911.
I don't think it is necessarily productive to complain about what is
occurring, but to try to work with the system and design one's life so that
as much of any system that is distasteful is eliminated.
I'm more interested in dealing with other aspect of extropic thinking in
regards to transhumanism. I find that most of the political posts on this
list are too full of complaining and disregard than creative problem
solving, or specific accomplishments that actually deal with the world's
problems.
Natasha
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