From: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> Date sent: Thu, 27 May 1999 18:20:20 -0700 (PDT) To: extropians@extropy.com Subject: Re: Property Rights Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> Joe E. Dees writes:
>
> > Bullets do not delineate a coherent fitness landscape; they'll kill
> > anyone, fat or thin, old or young, strong or weak, male or female,
> > smart or dumb, indiscriminately. There is no selection going on
> > there, for a bullet will reach into every niche.
>
> There is an important discrimination: bullets will kill anyone _who is
> there_. The probability density of speeding lead is not uniform...
>
Well, bullets have a strange tendency to go where the muzzle is
aimed when the trigger is pulled, and ther's no certain way, short of
hermitude (self-removal from society), to avoid the possibility.