Re: Blackmail as a good thing

2000-03-11 Thread Tim May
At 1:51 AM -0800 3/11/00, Bill Stewart wrote: >At 09:33 PM 03/10/2000 -0600, Aaron wrote: >>On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:22:35 +, Steve Mynott wrote: >> > and since blackmail is not an attack on life, library or property it >> > would not be a crime in a libertarian society. >> >>Doesn't this raise

Re: CDR: RE: Re: Blackmail as a good thing

2000-03-09 Thread Secret Squirrel
Jim Choate is probably the single stupidest man you will ever encounter online. He has raised stupidity to an art form; no, for him it is Art itself. It is his very breath, the food he eats, it is everything to him. He has distilled the essence of stupidity into an elixir so powerful it dissolve

Re: Blackmail as a good thing

2000-03-08 Thread Tim May
At 6:35 PM -0800 3/8/00, Bill Stewart wrote: >"Pay me or I'll tell your wife about your mistress" is blackmail. >"Pay me or I'll break your legs" is extortion. >"Pay me or I'll break your car windows again" is extortion. > Agree. >There are some arguable borderline cases, e.g. >"I know you don

Re: CDR: RE: Re: Blackmail as a good thing

2000-03-08 Thread Greg Broiles
At 01:32 PM 3/8/00, Trei, Peter wrote: >[quoting Jim Choate] > > Blackmail is the use of coersion of one person by another to profit at the > > expence of that target. No different than a mugging, just not as personal > > and in your face. > >Jim: > >1. Learn to spell coercion. > >2. Read the post