From: Ray Peck (rpeck@rpeck.com)
Date: Thu Sep 18 1997 - 17:18:06 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky writes:
>Ray Peck wrote:
>> Depriving someone of life, liberty or property through your intentional
>> actions requires force, in my book, regardless of the means which you
>> employ.
>
>There is a difference between violence and theft, as someone said the last
>time I made the proposal.
IMNSHO, one requires violence to steal, no matter what the means of theft.
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