[118382] in Cypherpunks
Re: anglefire
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cordian)
Sun Sep 26 14:32:27 1999
From: Eric Cordian <emc@chao.insync.net>
Message-Id: <199909261811.NAA49015@chao.insync.net>
To: jestaff2@unity.ncsu.edu (Jonathan Stafford)
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 11:11:42 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9909261322210.4718-100000@eos00du.eos.ncsu.edu> from "Jonathan Stafford" at Sep 26, 1999 01:27:16 PM
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Jonathan wrote:
> Few people would claim that hacking is worse, morally, socially, however,
> than pedophilia. In addition, reporting to EHAP likely requires a URL,
> which the complaintant in question has failed to supply even after being
> asked.
Pedophilia is simply the condition, on the part of an adult, of finding
prepubescent minors more sexually attractive than the aforementioned
adult's do-gooder busybody neighbors find them.
Some people who victimize children are pedophiles, some aren't.
In any case, it is one thing to state that crimes are loathsome. It is
another thing entirely to state that certain peoples' feelings and
thoughts, which they may never communicate to anyone, are loathsome.
This being a privacy and freedom oriented list, we tend to frown upon the
invention of new thought crimes, and upon the interchangable use of words
as both the names of psychological affectations and as the names of
crimes.
> I've heard that pedophiles and child pornographers have a rough time in
> prison too...
So do people who think Saddam Hussein should get the Nobel Peace Prize,
or that the Constitution is less useful than toilet paper.
Given that the prison population is composed of the less-bright, it is
unremarkable that they amplify society's predjudices. Racism is worse
in prison too.
--
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
