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Re: An armed society...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 28 Jan 2002 13:59:12 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> How about when everyone carried onboard defense-ware that would automagically
> compute threats and attacks and either alert you to them or respond with
> massive lethal destructive force? And what if that were backed up with
> overhead satelites that could rain showers of high-energy mass with fair
> precision?
Why would it be preferable, in this hypothetical example, to be ruled by
machines than governed by humans?
Dave!
(Only half kidding... After all, we cannot allow a mine shaft gap.)
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| (...) I guess I was being too simplistic. How about when everyone carried onboard defense-ware that would automagically compute threats and attacks and either alert you to them or respond with massive lethal destructive force? And what if that were (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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