<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><p dir="ltr">On Jul 29, 2015 3:40 AM, "BillK" <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> What is upsetting people is 'mission creep'. You start by putting<br>
> implants in murderers only, then violent criminals, then terrorists,<br>
> then ---- why not just put implants in everybody? The TSA, NSA, etc<br>
> are already checking and monitoring everyone as possible suspects.</p>
</span><p dir="ltr">Agreed. There might be more support if those deciding who to implant would themselves accept implants aimed at reducing their willingness to abuse...but of course this would be unacceptable to them. (Except maybe for the few who genuinely are motivated by pure public interest.)</p></blockquote><div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">You can control any sort of behavior you want to if everyone is implanted. But then you have a police state - too powerful, and antithetical to every libertarian, left or right. We are already pretty close to what R Heinlein said to leave: a country that demands that everyone carry an ID</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">. We could move much closer to that if we abolished cash, which is kind of happening now and has been for some time. bill w<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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