On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 22:35:47 +1000
Zenaan Harkness <z...@freedbms.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 02:47:08AM -0600, Mirimir wrote:
> > How about we implement a working AP system?
>
> As I said in a previous thread, I now believe that to be fundamentally
> flawed - that it will not achieve anything resembling justice, even in
> the long term.
The idea of finishing off criminals like cops, soldiers,
politicians, corporatist 'business' men, etc is pretty sound.
The problem is of course how to implement it. If AP can be
turned against honest people then it's obviously not a good
implementation.
>
> Fundamentally, the oligarchs and humans generally need a much higher
> level of education and discourse.
>
> "When all you have is a hammer ..."
>
>
> In the current climate of a majority of extremely dummed down
> "citizens", who are and feel disempowered, who cling to any iota of
> power that presents such as any public lynching, where intelligent
> "discourse" is simply not possible, restraint never exercised and
> certainly not possible to exercise collectively, AP would be at best
> a hammer to completely destroy society.
Well, actually, given the status quo, it might be a nice
change anyway. It would either succeed in killing people who
richly deserve to die, or it would kill innocents, which is
just business as usual.
>
>
> I support anarchism, not chaos.
