[extropy-chat] Nuke the Great Satan

[kevinfreels.com]

So you don;t see the difference between jaywalking and illegally crossing a
sovereign country's border?
It's all the same? A law is a law is a law? Shoplifting = murder?
Are you proposing that by breaking a law to enter a country a person is
therefore protected by the laws of that country?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Medina" <analyticphilosophy at gmail.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Nuke the Great Satan


> On 9/19/05, kevinfreels.com <kevin at kevinfreels.com> wrote:
> > This is exactly why we need to be shooting people as they enter the
country
> > illegally. I know it doesn;t seem very extropian, but if people were
being
> > shot, I doubt as many would be trying to cross. There's legal ways into
this
> > country.
>
> Let's shoot people for speeding and jaywalking. Let's chop off the
> hands of shoplifters, too. Let's stone queers in the public square.
> There are legal ways to drive and cross streets and acquire goods and
> get married, right?
>
> And I know it doesn't seem very extropian, but let's set the ignorant
> on fire, too. If the ignorant were burned at the stake, I doubt as
> many suggestions like this one would be passed around.
>
> -- 
> Jeff Medina
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