Re: evolved viruses

Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:15:31 -0400

Ray Peck wrote:
>
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky writes:
> >Ray Peck wrote:
> >> Depriving someone of life, liberty or property through your intentional
> >> actions requires force, in my book, regardless of the means which you
> >> employ.
> >
> >There is a difference between violence and theft, as someone said the last
> >time I made the proposal.
>
> IMNSHO, one requires violence to steal, no matter what the means of theft.

Not from the ignorant. The ignorant are always easy to steal from.
Simply convince them that it is in their own best interest that they
give you their property, the threat of violence is only needed for those
with intelligence. THis is why taxation, to most people, is not theft.

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			Michael Lorrey
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