Re: Justice and Punishment

Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com)
Sat, 04 Apr 1998 01:21:47 -0700


Alejandro Dubrovsky wrote:
> >[Bill Gates killing a ten million people] depending on how much bill
> >wants to see those 10000000 people dead. Again, on the whim of a
> >dictator...

John K Clark wrote:
> Look, if Bill Gates ever develops an insane homicidal hatred of me
> then I'd be in a very uncomfortable situation in my system, yours,
> or any other.

"Omnipotent psychotic businessmen are the downfall of every Libertarian
scheme, as well as every other scheme. Real psychotics are poor and
therefore not omnipotent. Scenarios with omnipotent psychotic
businessmen are therefore uninteresting."
---Tim Freeman <tim@infoscreen.com>