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1997-08-27 - Re: Socio-Economic Cults (Re: Cypherpunk Cults)

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From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
To: dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au
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UTC Datetime: 1997-08-27 17:22:54 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 01:22:54 +0800

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From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 01:22:54 +0800
To: dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au
Subject: Re: Socio-Economic Cults (Re: Cypherpunk Cults)
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David Formosa <dformosa@st.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, William H. Geiger III wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > "You fuck with me, my family, or my property you die. You leave me alone
> > and I leave you alone."
> 
> Thats fine and good.  But if I can't trust the goverment to folow its own
> rules and uphold liberty how can I trust you?  And how can I trust the
> next person? and the next? ...

It's a distributed system, it's more resilient to abuse than
governments.

If one person becomes too much of a nuisance (real trigger happy for
ultra minor infractions -- swearing at them, daring to look at them
when they're in a bad bood) relatives, friends, or concerned citizens
will correct (fill trigger happy person with lead).

That's how the wild west worked anyway... outlaws didn't last that
long.

So you're relying on other peoples sense of fairness ... should easily
work out better than governments.

Adam
-- 
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