Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Eric Takabayashi Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: I'm Usama bin Laden, and I approved this message Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:21:09 +0900 Lines: 40 Message-ID: <418E2144.FB03513B@yahoo.co.jp> References: <0oo9o0t7ot2addmdj99bo3u3t6rpqqsuqg@4ax.com> <4188F0CA.C62DA8F3@yahoo.co.jp> <4188FABF.4CAAB363@yahoo.co.jp> <418905D7.4F8F0559@yahoo.co.jp> <418A3181.998B4FED@yahoo.co.jp> <2v04noF2h2lumU4@uni-berlin.de> <418B8166.9177D36B@yahoo.co.jp> <418B93D6.973D3EB9@yahoo.co.jp> <418C34C4.EBF16D5C@yahoo.co.jp> <418CD05E.9D978D80@yahoo.co.jp> <418D9B61.60489F4F@yahoo.co.jp> <418DA282.72DAA895@yahoo.co.jp> <418DBC3B.144E5E1C@yahoo.co.jp> Reply-To: etakajp@yahoo.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de FBMJoNr3rZhvlBaDi82CggrqJYmh7UUToeQBPhsQ5UZNs7OYUZ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:21389 Ernest Schaal wrote: > Not all people are convicted criminals like you claim to be, I said that? > on the contrary, most have no arrest record. No way. Are you going to claim you have never broken the law again? > >> But the price of that technology is a "1984"-like police state, where > >> individual privacy is impossible. That is simply too high a price to pay. > > > > That is what people say because they are not acquainted with such a lifestyle. > > They are "acquainted" enough with it to figure out that the price is WAY too > high. How would they know, when there has never been such a lifestyle in any country at any time? > Basically, what we have here is a difference of priorities here, with > most honest people preferring to preserve their privacy to the complete > eradication of crime via a 1984 police state. I'm not talking about a 1984 police state. The closest comparison would be God watching. Criminals also like their privacy to be preserved, perhaps even more than honest people do. They are thankful for those who believe like you. -- "I'm on top of the world right now, because everyone's going to know that I can shove more than three burgers in my mouth!"