[extropy-chat] Jack's right, he's not ready for reality

[Technotranscendence]

On Sunday, November 20, 2005 5:46 PM spike spike66 at comcast.net wrote:
> How did money laundering get on the
> list?  I can see some recreational drugs,
> such as marijuana, certainly gambling
> and harlotry, but money laundering?
> That's still bad.

Why?  Isn't money laundering about people trying to hide money they
might have actually earned -- however, earned in activities that
government doesn't approve of -- and, in itself, there's nothing wrong
with?

Regards,

Dan
http://uweb1.superlink.net/~neptune/

"History is a selective recreation of the events of the past, according
to a historian's premises regarding what is important and his judgment
concerning the nature of causality in human action.  This selectivity is
a most important aspect of history, and it is this alone which prevents
history from becoming a random chronicling of events.  And since this
selectivity is necessary to history, the only remaining question is
whether or not such judgments will be made explicitly or implicitly,
with full knowledge of what one considers to be important and why, or
without such awareness.  Selection presupposes a means, method, or
principle of selection.  The historian's view of the nature of causality
in human action also is determined by a principle of selection." -- Roy
Childs