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I think it is important to acknowledge why people do things they do. - Somali pirates and Congolese poachers: poor and miserable conditions with no perspective

I think it is important to acknowledge why people do things they do. - Somali pirates and Congolese poachers: poor and miserable conditions with no perspective to get out of it - patent trolls: greedy, moral-less legal positivists - serial killers: psychopaths - ISIS terrorists: brainwashed losers, who want easy answers, a mission, a group and a leader - child molesters: I would say mentally ill If you see it like this, you can fix the problems below. You will still have to protect society from serial killers, but all others seem to be solvable. - African criminals: fix Africa - legal positivists: fix the law - ISIS terrorists: fix ghettos - child molesters: fix paedophilia Of course this will only fix the problem for future generations. Potential patent trolls will be assholes in a post-troll world, too, but you will always have to deal with those. There are paedophiles who are not human scum, but are aware what consequences their actions could have. That is also why the catholic church with its celibacy is so attractive to some of them. I personally think that institutions must act perfectly morally, but personally affected individuals should be required ultima ratio to act against morals and be later judged and punished for it. So in this case, when you are a small developer and there is no way out …

Grishnakh 10y ago
I don't know how you can "fix" paedophilia, any more than you can "fix" psychopathy. AFAICT, they're both mental disorders that are very deep-seated and probably unfixable, at least until we have better biomedical technology and a better understanding of the human brain. There's probably ways we might be able to identify these people as high-risk and put them in programs to monitor them and help them avoid committing crimes, but that's more of a work-around than a fix. Patent trolls aren't much different from serial killers, though: they're both socio/psychopaths (same thing really). Patent trolls aren't violent, and are greedy for money, that's the main difference. But the law itself you could say is a work-around for problems like this, but as we see here the law is broken and needs to be fixed because the sociopaths have figured out a way to abuse the law for their gain.
- allendoerfer 10y ago
  > but that's more of a work-around than a fix Depends on your point of view. In the point of view of a paedophile, sterilisation might not seem like a fix, society itself thinks different. >Patent trolls aren't much different from serial killers, though: they're both socio/psychopaths (same thing really) I thought so, too, but then did decided to not call them that, because I imagine that many of them are just not "into market economy" (you get money in exchange for providing value). They see a gap in the law and try to take it from "the big guys", who have it anyway. There are many other groups of people, who think that they are somehow entitled to get money they did not provide value for.
  - Grishnakh 10y ago
    >They see a gap in the law and try to take it from "the big guys", who have it anyway. There's a difference between suing Google or MS for patent violations, and suing some small business that's just selling an app on Google Play store. These patent trolls are frequently going after small companies because they know they're more likely to settle. That's sociopathic, it's not like Robin Hood.

Grishnakh 10y ago

I don't know how you can "fix" paedophilia, any more than you can "fix" psychopathy. AFAICT, they're both mental disorders that are very deep-seated and probably unfixable, at least until we have better biomedical technology and a better understanding of the human brain. There's probably ways we might be able to identify these people as high-risk and put them in programs to monitor them and help them avoid committing crimes, but that's more of a work-around than a fix. Patent trolls aren't much different from serial killers, though: they're both socio/psychopaths (same thing really). Patent trolls aren't violent, and are greedy for money, that's the main difference. But the law itself you could say is a work-around for problems like this, but as we see here the law is broken and needs to be fixed because the sociopaths have figured out a way to abuse the law for their gain.

allendoerfer 10y ago
> but that's more of a work-around than a fix Depends on your point of view. In the point of view of a paedophile, sterilisation might not seem like a fix, society itself thinks different. >Patent trolls aren't much different from serial killers, though: they're both socio/psychopaths (same thing really) I thought so, too, but then did decided to not call them that, because I imagine that many of them are just not "into market economy" (you get money in exchange for providing value). They see a gap in the law and try to take it from "the big guys", who have it anyway. There are many other groups of people, who think that they are somehow entitled to get money they did not provide value for.
- Grishnakh 10y ago
  >They see a gap in the law and try to take it from "the big guys", who have it anyway. There's a difference between suing Google or MS for patent violations, and suing some small business that's just selling an app on Google Play store. These patent trolls are frequently going after small companies because they know they're more likely to settle. That's sociopathic, it's not like Robin Hood.