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1997-07-10 - Re: Recreational pharmaceuticals by genetic engineering

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From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
To: Tim May <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Message Hash: 6f3f6faf7c555c27f67342618f5dbc327f6cf1db60a711c88da8cd69491cd985
Message ID: <3.0.3.32.19970710130536.009059a0@mail.io.com>
Reply To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970710100127.21118H-100000@linda.teleport.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-07-10 20:13:57 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 04:13:57 +0800

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From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 04:13:57 +0800
To: Tim May <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Recreational pharmaceuticals by genetic engineering
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At 11:24 AM 7/10/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>BTW, this was a topic of conversation several years ago in the nanotech
>discussion group I was in: home chemistry with instructions dowloaded from
>the Net. Sort of a "Click here to download manufacturing instructions for
>LSD."
>[...]
>Such "dangerous knowledge" will join bombmaking instructions in being added
>to Fineswine's law. Downloading of instructuctions for NC machine tools,
>too, if the instructions are for zip guns and even real guns.

And these technological developments will exacerbate the conflict between
the First Amendment and behavioral regulation which the Bernstein case has
already highlighted. "Informational liberty" and "behavioral liberty" are
becoming indistinguishable.


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