From: slothrop@poisson.com (J Durbin)
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 15:37:42 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Untraceable Payments, Extortion, and Other Bad Things
In-Reply-To: <199612242019.MAA18186@netcom18.netcom.com>
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On Tue, 24 Dec 96 12:19:22 -0800, you wrote:

>>You obviously (deliberately?) are misrepresenting May's comment above.  It 
>>isn't that some kinds of evil are "no big deal":  It's that quantiatively, 
>>refusing to accept a solution that would prevent, say, 100 deaths, simply 
>>because it would cause _one_ DIFFERENT death is foolish and misguided.  
>>
>>If you feel inclined to deny this, consider the reverse situation:  Would 
>>you approve of the saving of one life if it cost 100 lives?  (all things 
>>being equal.)  While most people would feel uncomfortable being asked to 
>>make decisions of this kind, that does not mean that one outcome is not 
>>identifiably better than another.  
>
>*I* am misrepresenting Timmy's statement?
>please explain to me how anonymous extortion and kidnapping/ransom (what
>Timmy was talking about) saves lives along the lines of the above 
>reasoning...

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jd
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