On 15 Aug 2013, at 19:09, Kyle Maxwell <ky...@xwell.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb > <ei8...@ei8fdb.org> wrote: >> My issue is with - "Hacking" is bad when people do it. It's ok when the >> government do it. > > To play devil's advocate for a moment: isn't that true for a lot of > things?
I'm not going to bite! ;) > The State is, in general, very jealous about its monopoly on > things like violence and taxation, and (modulo anarchists, many of > whom I love and respect) the majority of people are okay with those > things. I don't think most people are necessairly the same - extreme example, but I don't think I've ever heard "normal" (sure define "normal"!) people being ok with violence when carried out by states. -------------------------------------- Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb IO91XM / www.ei8fdb.org
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