From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2000 - 06:35:24 MDT
Zero Powers wrote:
>
> >From: "Jason Joel Thompson" <jasonjthompson@home.com>
>
> >This is the problem-- your perceived benefits of transparency don't accrue
> >to everyone.
>
> OK, I'll bite. Why not?
Its very simple, as we've said before: Those who lead plain jane normal
average vanilla lives will attract no interested observers, while those
that are odd: very beautiful, ugly, perverted, strange, rich, etc will
attract all the attention and will suffer persecution from the
intolerant vanilla majority. To avoid this, you'll have people being
what they are not to avoid surveillance by others, adding stress and
decreasing happiness and health, increasing suicides and other stress
related 'rat experiment' phenomena.
-- TANSTAAFL Mike Lorrey "In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free." --- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) "A person who wants a society that is both safe and free, wants what never has been, and what never will be." --- Thomas Jefferson "It's a Republic, if you can keep it..." --- Benjamin Franklin
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