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The fact that most people value their freedom and are not looking to commit crimes. There are many many things that could be done, but if done mean essentially

The fact that most people value their freedom and are not looking to commit crimes. There are many many things that could be done, but if done mean essentially destroying your life. Most people don't want to destroy their lives.

21 8y ago
? Most people don't want to destroy their lives by shooting someone with a gun, yet it happens every day.
- devoply 8y ago
  Okay I guess then we should do something about all them guns. Point there being that guns are readily available and this seems to be maybe slightly more dangerous in certain cases.
  - 21 8y ago
    My point was not about guns in particular. People use knifes for that too, or rocks, or baseball bats, and we aren't going to ban those. My point was that there are people who want to murder, and drones will be very suitable for that, and the fact that 99.99% of people don't won't really matter.
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JoeAltmaier 8y ago
One griefer with a website that offers exploding drone swarms to a given target? 'Most people' isn't everybody, and it only takes one. And the website could be anonymous (bitcoin anyone?)
- devoply 8y ago
  I am almost certain we have laws on the books to deal with that. The point is identifying that before they do anything.
  - JoeAltmaier 8y ago
    Deal with what? A website that relaunches in the cloud from a different bitcoin account every 20 minutes? Anonymity is great from a personal-freedom point of view, but not so much when assassins start advertising their services out in the open.
- zipwitch 8y ago
  It's a problem of scale. Say 0.0001% (number pulled from my rear pocket for illustration purposes) of the population want to engage in 'recreational terrorism' or 'orc-work'. If you have a population in the hundreds of thousands or low millions, there just aren't enough of them to have any direct impact on the big picture. But once you get the population high enough, once the absolute number of evil idiots is high enough to cause real systemic damage, even though they are a tiny percentage of the whole.
  - JoeAltmaier 8y ago
    One tiny group of people hijacked 3 planes, and we're suffering the fallout decades later.

21 8y ago

? Most people don't want to destroy their lives by shooting someone with a gun, yet it happens every day.

devoply 8y ago
Okay I guess then we should do something about all them guns. Point there being that guns are readily available and this seems to be maybe slightly more dangerous in certain cases.
- 21 8y ago
  My point was not about guns in particular. People use knifes for that too, or rocks, or baseball bats, and we aren't going to ban those. My point was that there are people who want to murder, and drones will be very suitable for that, and the fact that 99.99% of people don't won't really matter.

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JoeAltmaier 8y ago

One griefer with a website that offers exploding drone swarms to a given target? 'Most people' isn't everybody, and it only takes one. And the website could be anonymous (bitcoin anyone?)

devoply 8y ago
I am almost certain we have laws on the books to deal with that. The point is identifying that before they do anything.
- JoeAltmaier 8y ago
  Deal with what? A website that relaunches in the cloud from a different bitcoin account every 20 minutes? Anonymity is great from a personal-freedom point of view, but not so much when assassins start advertising their services out in the open.
zipwitch 8y ago
It's a problem of scale. Say 0.0001% (number pulled from my rear pocket for illustration purposes) of the population want to engage in 'recreational terrorism' or 'orc-work'. If you have a population in the hundreds of thousands or low millions, there just aren't enough of them to have any direct impact on the big picture. But once you get the population high enough, once the absolute number of evil idiots is high enough to cause real systemic damage, even though they are a tiny percentage of the whole.
- JoeAltmaier 8y ago
  One tiny group of people hijacked 3 planes, and we're suffering the fallout decades later.