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A historical perspective should tell you that communities want to detect people who violate norms and inflict pain(ful death) on them. We have for most of human
by superuser2 11y ago
A historical perspective should tell you that communities want to detect people who violate norms and inflict pain(ful death) on them. We have for most of human history. The urbanization incident to the industrial revolution made the detection part harder for a little while, since communities were too large to meaningfully police themselves ad-hoc anymore. Professional police band-aided the gap for a while. Now we're returning to a total surveillance society, except with computer systems instead of your neighbors doing the watching.