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If we have to rely on the next guy, then don't you think this reveals a fundamental flaw in our system? Imagine if you're designing a system, and you notice th
by splintercell 9y ago
If we have to rely on the next guy, then don't you think this reveals a fundamental flaw in our system?
Imagine if you're designing a system, and you notice that a hacker has exploited some issue and is causing damage, do you really tell people complaining about the exploit as "Not all our customers are going to exploit this issue, the next guy who accesses our system would definitely not use this exploit.
You don't see an architectural problem here?
- d0lph 9y agoAmerica is a democratic nation, this is a choice not an exploit. It's a feature not a bug.
- splintercell 9y agoAmerica is not a democratic nation (that's like saying all bugs were written by the programmer so all bugs are features). Democracy was tried in Greece and even Romans didn't use it. The sheer fact that we have a constitution to limit the powers of the democratically elected govt means that we applied a patch on democracy from beginning itself. If relying on the goodness of the govt were a feature, then we wouldn't need a constitution (which technically isn't even a patch but rather a unit test supplied with the system, which in itself can be modified).
- d0lph 9y agoA republic is basically democracy with a few extra steps added: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy
- splintercell 9y agoYeah you're not getting the point here. I am trying to show you problem with your thinking about the system, and you think as if I don't know enough to make an ignorant point when it doesn't even look like you read my comment fully.