RE: Has anyone heard of Susanne Eman?
January 13, 2014 at 1:19 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2014 at 1:23 pm by Fidel_Castronaut.)
(January 13, 2014 at 1:11 pm)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote: No. It's more like you go to an "all you can eat" buffet. According to the agreement, you're entitled to eat whatever you want and as much as you want with the $9.99 you paid. And let's say that you ate twice as much as the average person in the restaurant which led to a shortage of Mac n cheese and also a loss to the business. Was the customer behaving badly? No. He was just taking what is entitled to him because of the 9.99 he paid. If the business didn't like it, perhaps they shouldn't call themselves an "all you can eat " restaurant.
So autonomous agents don't have any control over their actions?
And I mean autonomous because otherwise everyone would be stuffing their faces with food and getting 'free(tax contribution) healthcare'.
Your original point was that it was a victimless crime, but that should it be a crime, it's the structure that's the problem and not the individual. But that can't be resolved because if it were the structure then there would surely be uniform abuse across the board. Individuals would be irrelevant to the conclusion.
I can't see it myself. I think these kind of folk need to take responsibility for their actions and the resulting damage they do , directly and indirectly, on others. Which they definitely do, I think we can get some measure of agreement on that.