From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 21:31:19 MDT
spike wrote:
> Back to the problem of power abuse: we really can stop
> this. For instance, consider speeding. Everyone here
> has done it. Well, ok, everyone other than Eliezer and
> Johnny Grigg. What if we got a ticket *every single time*
> we exceeded the limit? Would not a political candidate
> arise who would be elected on nothing besides a promise
> to remove speed limit laws?
>
> As surveillance increases, I expect the legal system
> to compensate, first by removing absurd guard-rail laws.
>
### Exactly!
Transparency forces the acknowledgement of truth. If current speed laws are
a fiction, they would be one of the first legal white elephants to go. A lot
of the legal deadweight would be challenged and rejected.
BTW, are Eliezer and John, eh, angels, to never speed?
Rafal
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