<div dir="auto">Nicely said.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 9, 2020, 12:19 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 3:41 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>Including the 'good' parts doesn't change the fact that total
transparency would be a recipe for disaster. Human beings just
aren't capable of dealing with it. The example of homosexuality and
religious convictions about it is a perfect example, but far from
the only one. Yes, everyone would know exactly who had lynched the
peaceful gay couple living in No. 26, but that wouldn't do the dead
couple any good. Multiply that by millions, add in all the other
kinds of behaviour and world-views that various people see as
obnoxious, sinful etc., and worthy of violent 'reprisals', and what
kind of a world would it be?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Who is more in need of anonymity: those who sin but hurt none save themselves, or those who plan violence against their neighbors?<br><br>All across the world, in every community, there are those who oppose violence against their community. A chief weapon of oppressive regimes - whether they call themselves a government, a religion, or whatever - has been anonymity: one can not strike back against unknown foes.</div><div><br></div><div>Witness the rise of doxxing of public, uniformed officers. On the job, when they are armed, ready, and surrounded by armed and ready allies, they are quite identifiable - but they are supposed to be anonymous and private when off the job. Strip them of that, and they rightfully fear for their lives.</div><div><br></div><div>Many of those who plan violence against "sinners" do not even have that much protection. If everyone knew everything, people under immediate threat of a lynch mob would get warning of an incoming lynch mob and know which way to flee. Granted, their pursuers would know which way they fled, but a chasing lynch mob loses steam once it is clear the message has been delivered. And, again, everyone else would get notice that there is this mob that wishes violence upon their community, and who is leading the mob. Those who oppose violence are less in need of anonymity, because the end they work toward is a lack of reprisals.</div></div></div>
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