[79872] in Cypherpunks
Re: War & InfoWar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Tue May 13 00:42:24 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970512200506.006d0f1c@cnw.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 23:41:42 -0400
To: Blanc <blancw@cnw.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 11:12 pm -0400 on 5/12/97, Blanc wrote:
> Truthfully, I don't think you've stockpiled any explosives to use for such
> an act, and even if you had, I don't believe you would use them. You'd
> have to pay someone else to do the deed, and even so you'd probably start
> reflecting on all those other people's itty bitty children who would have
> to lose their lives in that total destruction, and chicken out.
Ah. A 90's version of Freddy Hayek's "Road to Serfdom", maybe?
A turn-of-the-new-century Phabian Society needs a Stalin to make it's
dreams reality?
Be careful what you wish for, ladies and germs...
Cheers,
Bob
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