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Re: What is spam? (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:11:00 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
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> Christopher Weeks wrote:
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> > > their condition. I recognised your rights based outlook on this, but I think
> > > a mature democracy should be able to make a decisions and ban such material.
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> > And as always, I'm frightened of your 'mature democracy.' An unfettered
> > democracy is potentially as bad as any dictatorship. Heck, with a dictatorship
> > at least you have some chance of a cluefull guy at the top.
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> Not to mention that a dictatorship is often more easily changed than a democracy -
> you only generally have to get rid of one person (and maybe some key henchmen).
Oh, you mean like Jiang Zemin or perhaps Augusto Pinochet?
:)
Scott A
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> > > > Maybe. If there is no victim, there is no crime.
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> > > Flatulence has many victims, but it is not a crime. If there is no law,
> > > there is no crime. :)
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> > Good point! Let's do away with most of them. :-)
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> It certainly would free up a lot of money wasted on jails and the court system
> (could free it up for legitimate crimes or prevention, if not for non-judicial
> uses).
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> --
> Tom Stangl
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