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by oleganza 13y ago
What does that mean, then: "Yes, I would justify someone forcing you to pay taxes to fund the NSA in that case." I simply don't understand how "justifying forcing me" is not the same as telling the police. If it is
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by oleganza 13y ago
I asked you explicitly in Twitter "@mikeash two questions: 1) will you give your friends/family to the police if they don't file taxes? 2) did I threaten you for your beliefs?" https://twitter.com/oleganz
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by oleganza 13y ago
"In the box are Ad and 2Bd." The service is supposed to destroy only Bd, not 2Bd. And not separately, but both deposits at once when the deal is timed out, or both parties commit that they disagree with each other.
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by oleganza 13y ago
> I have no idea where you got this "turn in police some people, but not your friends and family" from. From your tweet: @oleganza 1) No, I wouldn't turn them in, but I believe such enforcement is necessary and overall goo
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by oleganza 13y ago
Ok. So what's the source of your knowledge about morality? You cannot refer to laws because you may disagree with some of them. Which principle do you use to find out when government is doing right and when it is doing wrong? Also: w
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by oleganza 13y ago
So you should justify putting Snowden in prison because that's what government wants to do with him for failing his obligations. And since you justify violence when it comes from government, there is a contradiction if you disapprove o
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by oleganza 13y ago
So if terrorism was killing some people, you'd justify someone forcing me to pay taxes to fund NSA? Or you'd prefer some non-violent, voluntary way to organise protection against terrorism? Would you kick ass of your neighbour if
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by oleganza 13y ago
I am talking about what's happening in reality. "Morality" and "ethics" are creations of our minds, not something we find lying around. When these abstractions are used to justify violence, then I come and expose
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by oleganza 13y ago
Millions of people believe in one god or another and visit churches where they are being taught about what's good and what's right. Does that kind of "education" make something right or wrong? Does it make it right for m
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by oleganza 13y ago
"Sovereignity" is just a word. I can also use it to proclaim me and my friends individually "sovereign" so no aggression against them is justified. May you tell me how violence is justified in your eyes when person volun
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by oleganza 13y ago
If you feel that you don't get enough of gov "care" when someone doesn't pay taxes, it means you are personally entitled to that amount that he didn't pay, right? If you feel you are personally entitled, will you co
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by oleganza 13y ago
If you are concerned about violent armed people, why do you support an idea of a massive hierarchy of violent armed people aka Government?
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by oleganza 13y ago
Lets have slavery as an example. You feel uncomfortable abolishing government completely. That's fine. How'd it work with slavery? Imagine we decide that slavery is not good. Should we just let every slave run away (at the expense
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by oleganza 13y ago
And then? Does government ever say "oh, nevermind"? After a couple of notices your bank account will be frozen, or your passport "revoked" etc.
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by oleganza 13y ago
300bps pointed out that means justify ends. If there were more terrorists caught than people dying in car accidents, that would justify NSA activity in his eyes. (If it wouldn't, he would not defend his stats-based argument.) I point o
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by oleganza 13y ago
Society != government.
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by oleganza 13y ago
So is it okay to take 5 good organs from a single man to save 5 lives? For me, morality comes first, then you use statistics to choose what's good for you , not me . I will decide on my own. http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by oleganza 13y ago
Lets start with "Reality 101". The documents do not talk and do not act. It's just a piece of paper (real) with some text on it (real). But it becomes a legal thing only when some particular armed dude is looking at it and ma
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by oleganza 13y ago
Armed people are those who make the choice. Gun does not kill, Putin does not kill. Armed dude who can follow or not follow the orders kills. The whole point of my comments is that what is generally considered immoral (threatening and killi
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by oleganza 13y ago
It's a very dangerous path to take when discussing statistics. Will it become moral to lie and extract taxation from people if there were 5000000 terrorists? At which amount of terrorists morality of gov lying and spying switches from
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by oleganza 13y ago
It's a deep denial of the reality when you say that. Both my and your lives are 95% peaceful anarchy - we voluntarily interact with who we want and ignore people we dislike or disapprove of. The remaining 5% - is when some dudes in cos
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by oleganza 13y ago
It's silly to focus on Snowden's actions at all when uncontrolled violent organization forces various groups of people to give up information on millions of people and lie to them about the fact. Imagine, Snowden does not go to Ru
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by oleganza 13y ago
Because passport is just a piece of paper (or a record in a database) that armed dudes called "border control policemen" are asking for to let you go. And if you don't have one, they'll point a gun on you. Make a thought
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by oleganza 13y ago
What do you think was stopping Snowden from sitting on a bus and going to Moscow? Armed soldiers. What do you think is stopping Google from non-complying with an order to install a fedbox in their datacenter? Armed guys who would go in and
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by oleganza 13y ago
It's silly to blame Snowden to any degree. He got enough troubles from his employer already. The problem is the reason why he got "4 laptops of NSA secrets". Hint: it is because there are certain people who lie, spy and thr
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by oleganza 13y ago
Reminder: the real reason Snowden could not walk out of the airport is not because of some virtual "passport" that US "revoked". It is because there are real armed obedient guys on the border who would not let Snowden go
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by oleganza 13y ago
Alice receives payment only after sending some good to Bob.
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by oleganza 13y ago
Only BTC/LTC are accepted in the pot. If you want to sell Wii controller for 0.1 BTC, you have to put at least 0.1 BTC in the pot.
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by oleganza 13y ago
If Nashx was a mediator: 1. It would require them to hire experts in all markets they wish to support. 2. And since mediation has a human factor, there will always be scammers with some success rate of fooling experts around. Considering th
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by oleganza 13y ago
https://nashx.com/FAQ Q: Why don't we give destroyed funds to charity or miners? A: It gives them a bad incentive to make fake accounts, get into fake deals with real people, and destroy risk funds. If destroyed risk f

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