At 06:01 PM 3/12/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Sure, kidnappers and thugs also extort, but kidnapping >>and threatening violence are crimes. Loose lips aren't. > >Let's see: > >1. if you tell the (a) government about (b) thug's drug lab, it's not a crime, but thugs will (c) try to kill you. Thuggery has nothing to do with the pharmaceutical industry. Thuggery is violence. (Literally, mugger, from Hindi, AFAIK) >2. if you tell (b) thugs about (a) government's money printing process, it's a crime and government will (c) try kill you. Unless you've signed a security clearance, or NDA, or other contract, anything you know is yours. Local treasury laws irrelevent. >So it appears that the definition of crime depends on the probability >of success of (c), whether performed by (a) or (b). Nope.
