[ExI] chinese fires, was:RE: book review

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 12:00, spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] chinese fires, was:RE: book review
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> On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 10:51, spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> The federal cops, the FBI, was caught and convicted of falsifying
> evidence.  They never really did anything to the guy.  Of course that is
> going to arouse suspicion.  Now we know the FBI falsifies evidence.  The
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> >…It is possible for an official, legislator or judicial officer to be
> honest yet have values contrary to your own. For example, there are
> probably Taliban officials who are extremely fair in applying Sharia law,
> while there may be others who can be bribed or are just lazy and don’t
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> Stathis Papaioannou
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> I see, so falsifying evidence is… what Stathis?  Kinda OK if it agrees
> with sharia law and the guy who falsified the evidence is… what please?  Do
> explain why we should think there is any justification or any way we can
> consider it honest or ethical or legal or any other form of justification
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> The FBI falsified evidence.  They caught the guy.  Did almost nothing to
> him.  Now… the FBI falsifies evidence.
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There are two issues: officials being dishonest and breaking their own
rules (eg. falsifying evidence) and the rules themselves being bad rules.
The application of Sharia law may be fair and honest, but it still sucks.
In your jurisdiction also there may be laws that are applied fairly and
honestly, but you disagree with the laws. You can try to change them, but
if you can’t you are stuck with them.

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Stathis Papaioannou
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