[108228] in Cypherpunks
CDR: RE: Feb. 12 column - death penalty (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blanc)
Tue Feb 9 03:19:21 1999
From: "Blanc" <blancw@cnw.com>
To: <cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:09:06 -0800
In-Reply-To: <199902090553.XAA10560@einstein.ssz.com>
Reply-To: "Blanc" <blancw@cnw.com>
From Jim Choate:
: To kill a person for setting up a death camp is to become the
: person setting up the death camp. [ . . . ]
: The problem with revenge is identical to that of hate, you
: become what you are protecting yourself against. It is
: fundamentaly self-defeating and corrupting of ethics and
: morality in both the individual and social levels.
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Imagine this, Jim:
You live in a Nation where, one day, they declare Martial Law and surround the borders with troops,
preventing insiders from leaving and preventing outsiders from entering (nowhere to hide, nowhere to
run).
They up and create a functioning death camp, then they stop by your house and post a little yellow
sticky on your body, identifying you as being next in line for extermination.
Just curious what you would do in this hypothetical scenario.
..
Blanc
