Thanks for being the only reply so far to attempt to actually address what I asked. I have some critiques of what you've linked; I don't put much stock in the

Thanks for being the only reply so far to attempt to actually address what I asked. I have some critiques of what you've linked; I don't put much stock in the "I turned out fine" school of thought, for one. But it was an interesting read. Striving for the "impossible" is something we do all the time, as hackers. It seems to me like the disagreement is not over whether one can achieve an impossible standard of justice, but rather, over what is impossible.