Celebration (intended to be offensive, possible humor)

From: Vance Dereksen <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Sun Jul 8 11:23:20 2001

If society were to take this kind of horrible intolerable turn, I would be
forced to take up arms. I would kill as many people as I could (it would
be quite a few, I think. Myself and a couple other intelligent people
might be able to think up ingenious ways of destroying, if necessary.) and
then I would happily go off to the executioner. If the penalty was the
former of your two examples, I would make sure to produce absolutely
nothing.

Peace... Sridhar

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:

> The trick is to assign a penalty so severe that all people, no matter how many
> trillions they have, will not want to pay it, and that, having paid the penalty,
> they will absolutely not make the choice to do that again. I can only think of
> one such penalty, though there are many ways of administering it.
>
> For example, if the fine for speeding were 100% of all your personal holdings,
> irresprctive of how much that might be, including clothing and other personal
> belongings, and 95% of all you earn or otherwise acquire for the next 30 years,
> assuming you can survive that long on only 5% of what you acquire, you might not
> choose to speed, particularly since it would require you to watch your children
> starve, if they hadn't already. It would be costly and diffucult to exact that
> penalty, while a quick bullet between the eyes would be easy and simple. If a
> mistake were made, well, a posthumous apology would have to suffice.
>
> Dick
Received on Sun Jul 08 2001 - 11:23:20 BST