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Does the same logic apply if Alice wants to sell Bob a human being?
by peterhunt 9y ago
Does the same logic apply if Alice wants to sell Bob a human being?
- jstanley 9y agoThat's somewhat of a strawman argument: if you think dealing crack is the same as dealing human beings, where do you even draw the line? Is it not OK to deal in anything, on the basis that it could be a human being if you changed it to a human being? The difference when dealing a human being is it's no longer a transaction between only Alice and Bob. There's now a third person involved who has every right to object to the transaction. Decentralised marketplace or not.
- peterhunt 9y agoLaw enforcement needs the same set of tools to solve both of these problems. You are proposing that these tools should go away, right?
- jstanley 9y ago"Both" of these problems? The problem is dealing in human beings, right? What's the other problem? Am I proposing that the tools to solve human trafficking go away? I wouldn't put it that way. Lots of societal progress comes with trade-offs. There will certainly be challenges for law enforcement but I'm confident they'll solve them. The world isn't going to descend into a chaotic state of everyone buying and selling everyone else just because free-trade becomes ubiquitous.
- openasocket 9y agoThe OP said "Can we find a way to help law enforcement police at the very least the really, really bad stuff," I think you're eliding his entire concern when you just say "I'm confident they'll solve them"
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- int_19h 9y agoThese tools will go away. You can't put that genie back in the bottle.
- rvern 9y agoYou can't sell something you don't own.