(July 22, 2011 at 3:09 pm)Judas BentHer Wrote: Whatever you can live with dear, so as to defend your inclination, as you mentioned earlier, toward criminality (Piracy).
What is actually fucked is that given that you think I'd take you seriously and hold you credible, when you proffer a defense of criminality that amounts to saying, it's not all that bad.
She made several good points regarding human nature, risk and rewards under any venture. Theft, drug dealing et al are ventures, which is why things like the war on drugs and the like are unproductive as they fail to address the root economics, which is pretty much risk and reward, supply and demand.
In addition, she pointed out, that like many people finding it hard to imagine the universe not ruled by an angry alpha male, many people find it hard to imagine their society not ruled by an entity that can and will put you behind bars or worse for transgressions that may or may not have truly occurred. Under those pretenses, I agree with her.
An authority, like government, that is not enforcing it's will and spreading fear of itself, will be ignored and fall to the wayside, like a stable government in Somalia.
We teach our young ethics and morality in hopes of instilling basic social conduct, however, with the existence of law itself, it seems to be evident that the social contract in it of itself is insufficient at dealing with bad actors in a system. With that need apparent, we create, collectively, an apparatus that can do such at the basic core. You may have heard of this as "Law Enforcement."
Now, you may act like the coward you have presented yourself as and avoid meeting her (and now my) points, pre-offering only mindless platitudes or actually participate in this discussion.
