[ExI] Immaculate Election

Anton Sherwood bronto at pobox.com
Wed Jan 13 17:09:42 UTC 2021


On 2021-1-11 18:29, Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat wrote:
> If distrust of voting machines are causing
> massive protests that lead to injury, loss of life, and destruction of
> property and historic artifacts, then should not the manufacturers of
> voting machines be held liable for the damages?

Too bad we can't put distrust on trial.


> Because as noted by James Madison in the Federalist Papers, without  
> trust in one another and our institutions, despotism is the only way  
> to prevent violence:

Another way is to remove the jackpots (positive and negative)
that tempt violence.

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