Scott Badger [wbadger@psyberlink.net] wrote:
>Trying to solve the crime problem by arming everyone is treating the
>symptom.
No, it's a decentralized, spontaneous order solution, rather than something centrally imposed.
>A more transcendent approach, it seems to me, would be to do
>everything we can to eliminate Antisocial Personality Disorders (APDs) and
>help would-be criminals to become higher level humans. Get rid of this
>single personality disorder and you will have solved a huge part of the
>problem.
And when Transhumanism is defined as an Antisocial Personality Disorder? Bye-bye, dude...
>Being forced to tell the truth
>doesn't make the APD go away.
Indeed, see the discussions on the "balanced budget" yesterday. It's very precise, totally true, yet tells you nothing about reality.
>I want society to be polite, not because it's
>armed and scared to be anything but polite, but because it really feels like
>being polite.
Mark