[extropy-chat] Futures Politics

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 06:27:30PM -0800, spike wrote:

> In most of human history on most of this planet, they 
> probably would just shoot or hang the criminals.  With
> the modern legal system, there has never been a better
> time than now or a better place than the west to be
> a criminal.

While I agree in principle, I would have used a past
tense here. (At least, for some specific values of 
ethnicity or belief of criminals).

I don't think there was ever a time to work with the
bastards. Now if you want to start hanging them (impeachment
is for wusses), now's the time.

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Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a>
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