From: Blanc Weber <blancw@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 94 15:55:06 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Crime and punishment in cyberspace - 3 of 3
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From: Jim Miller

Better people make a better world.  A committee should be
formed to develop specifications describing a good person.  The committee
could then launch a program to guide society to a future where everyone
met or exceeded the recommended specifications.
...............................

Better yet, why not build your own!

With the growing field of robotics & nanotechnology, you could just 
grow your own version of the perfect citizen (all in your own image of 
virtue&morality). There would be no objections, then, to "frequent 
quality assurance testing to guarantee rapid convergence to the desired 
goals.  [Automatons] who did not meet the specifications would be 
[rewired into] the program."

And there would be no protests or rants regarding privacy, since there 
would be no need, since everyone would be alike and predictable in 
their "values" & "ambitions".

Blanc