Re: An Argument Against Privacy was: Openness.

From: haradon@acsu.buffalo.edu
Date: Thu Nov 19 1998 - 02:42:02 MST


--On Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 7:25 PM +0800 "Ken Meyering"
<ken@define.com> wrote:

> Paul Hughes <planetp@aci.net>:
>> Libertarians have argued for a long time to eliminate all victimless
crimes
>> from the books. The bottom line is almost everyone has committed a
>> victimless crime. So either we begin incarcerating everyone or we
>> eliminate those crimes from the books.
>>
>> So the question remains - is this a bad thing? And if so, is there a way
>> to avoid it anyway amidst a proliferation of commercial gnatbots?
>
> What if the gnatbots show that your next door neighboor is breeding
> incestuous sex slaves that he keeps in his basement with his wife,
> that he purchased over the internet? (She was made using clones
> created from Sharon Stones snot, that was stolen from a used Kleenex,
> that was stolen from the garbage can outside one of her dressing
> rooms).
>
> Where's the victim?

Do you really have to ask who the victim is in the case of "sex slaves"?

>
> -------------------
> ken@define.com

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