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If you're looking for an efficient security apparatus, you'll have a hard time topping an assassination market. [0] You combine that with intelligent software

by woodman 12y ago

If you're looking for an efficient security apparatus, you'll have a hard time topping an assassination market. [0] You combine that with intelligent software agents and crypto currency to create a policy of mutual assured destruction that scales :) [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market

pjc50 12y ago
It's only a week after the assassination of cartoonists, this is in extremely poor taste.
- woodman 12y ago
  lol, wait - how is this anything like that? This might be the most hamfisted attempt at whiteknighting I've ever seen.
  - pjc50 12y ago
    The point is that an assassination market is facilitating murder, which is criminal and immoral and also destabilizing; you're far more likely to get a spiral of ill-targeted reprisals. (I can't believe someone describes "murder is wrong" as "whiteknighting")
    - woodman 12y ago
      You understand the context of this discussion involves: WMDs, state military and private military. So we are already talking about murder - and the scales aren't even comparable. How is a murder at the hands of the state less wrong than a murder at the hands of private assassin? That is why you are "whiteknighting", you are trying to defend the indefensible with an appeal to emotion. Waving about the bloody shirt of the dead cartoonists, nice.
      - pjc50 12y ago
        This is bizarre. The context is an article saying, among other things, "He is alarmed by the prospect, not least because he feels that in a truly free market mercenary armies might be encouraged to seek profits by starting new wars". You're the one who brought up assassination politics; in which anyone sufficiently unpopular would get a price on their head. This is not an improvement. I'm not trying to defend anything other than the status quo, in which unaccountable private paramilitaries are fairly rare and frowned on.
        woodman 12y ago
        > This is bizarre. I agree, people thinking other thoughts and drawing different conclusions can be unsettling. The article also touches on the idea of efficiency, which you will see is the point of my top post - before you somehow linked assassination markets to Islamic terrorism. While I welcome a debate on the merit and feasibility of assassination markets, I don't think it would be a very productive conversation to have with you - as you've already expressed your interest in simply defending the status quo. Also, PMCs are not rare or frowned on - so your situation awareness is off as well (lets not get into a redefinition of "rare" or "frowned on" either).

by woodman 12y ago

pjc50 12y ago

It's only a week after the assassination of cartoonists, this is in extremely poor taste.

woodman 12y ago
lol, wait - how is this anything like that? This might be the most hamfisted attempt at whiteknighting I've ever seen.
- pjc50 12y ago
  The point is that an assassination market is facilitating murder, which is criminal and immoral and also destabilizing; you're far more likely to get a spiral of ill-targeted reprisals. (I can't believe someone describes "murder is wrong" as "whiteknighting")
  - woodman 12y ago
    You understand the context of this discussion involves: WMDs, state military and private military. So we are already talking about murder - and the scales aren't even comparable. How is a murder at the hands of the state less wrong than a murder at the hands of private assassin? That is why you are "whiteknighting", you are trying to defend the indefensible with an appeal to emotion. Waving about the bloody shirt of the dead cartoonists, nice.
    - pjc50 12y ago
      This is bizarre. The context is an article saying, among other things, "He is alarmed by the prospect, not least because he feels that in a truly free market mercenary armies might be encouraged to seek profits by starting new wars". You're the one who brought up assassination politics; in which anyone sufficiently unpopular would get a price on their head. This is not an improvement. I'm not trying to defend anything other than the status quo, in which unaccountable private paramilitaries are fairly rare and frowned on.
      - woodman 12y ago
        > This is bizarre. I agree, people thinking other thoughts and drawing different conclusions can be unsettling. The article also touches on the idea of efficiency, which you will see is the point of my top post - before you somehow linked assassination markets to Islamic terrorism. While I welcome a debate on the merit and feasibility of assassination markets, I don't think it would be a very productive conversation to have with you - as you've already expressed your interest in simply defending the status quo. Also, PMCs are not rare or frowned on - so your situation awareness is off as well (lets not get into a redefinition of "rare" or "frowned on" either).