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Do you ever buy anything at grocery store, drug store, restaurant that you put in your body? There is risk in everything. Generally people aren't sociopaths an
by njharman 13y ago
Do you ever buy anything at grocery store, drug store, restaurant that you put in your body?
There is risk in everything. Generally people aren't sociopaths and aren't out to harm others. Risk is minimal but exists.
Sellers on Silkroad do have reputation? Anonymous does not mean "unknown".
- pokoleo 13y agoI'm rather sure that Anonymous does mean "(of a person) not identified by name; of unknown name."
- jlgreco 13y agoIt would not be controversial to state that the Federalist Papers were published anonymously, despite the fact that the authors gave themselves the pseudonym "Publius".
- asveikau 13y ago> Do you ever buy anything at grocery store, drug store, restaurant that you put in your body? These are all inspected by governments. You can argue that this is imperfect, does not happen frequently enough, leaves something to be desired, won't catch everything, etc., but speaking personally, I do take those inspection scores seriously when I see them posted on the walls of places.
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- scott_karana 13y ago> Do you ever buy anything at grocery store, drug store, restaurant that you put in your body? Not really a fair comparison. If a grocery store assaults or defrauds you, you have legal recourse. There is nothing you can do if an illicit transaction fails. The rest of what you say is true, of course.
- gwern 13y agoYou can leave bad feedback, and take it to the dispute center to force the seller to defend themselves to the SR admins. This is more recourse than you have in practice against a grocery store if they refuse to give you a refund - what are you going to do, sue them?
- nerfhammer 13y agoIf a grocery store harms you in an illegal way you they can be punished by the force of the state in a variety of ways. The same is not true of a anonymous person on an inbound tor site.
- tedks 13y agoIf someone sold bad shit on the silk road, they'd lose all of their rep and stop making money. On the original silk road, it cost a very large amount to get a vendor account. So if you decided to start selling bad shit, you'd have to play nice for a while to break even, a while longer to build trust, and then go out in a blaze of bad shit. I don't really see why anyone would do that. If you have good enough connections to get a good rep on the Silk Road (or similar site), you have good enough connections to never need to sell bad shit. As Stringer Bell would say, it's all about the product. If you have better product than your competition, you'll win in the end.
- gwern 13y ago> If a grocery store harms you in an illegal way you they can be punished by the force of the state in a variety of ways. Hypothetically. If you have enough money. And enough evidence. Good luck with that. I'd rather take my chances in SR's dispute resolution center...
- nerfhammer 13y agoYou act like the health department is some kind of ivory tower
- njharman 13y ago