Thank you for your comments. Unrelated, looking back at this ars poetica of mine I almost puked. I meant it all and am happy I wrote it, but it's "too much." :)
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, der Mouse wrote: >>> No villain ever sees himself as the bad guy, as the saying goes. A >>> friend recently showed me Russian language comments written on Brian >>> Krebs' recent Washington Post story. In them, the posters ask: "why >>> do you take our bread away?" > > That's easy: the same reason "we" "take away" the bread of the kids of > a drug smuggler...or a hit man...or an embezzler...or any of the > various other actions we have chosen to consider offenses worthy of > substantial punishment: it's _punishment_. > > This glosses over the different values of "we" involved when offenses > go trans-border. But that makes it, if anything, stronger: there is > some force to their argument if everything is entirely within their > society, but when it spills over into another society that considers it > unacceptable, the injured society has every right to wall itself off. > That's in large part what being a soverign state is all about. > > And, that aside, it's not really "us" "taking away" "their" bread. > Rather, it's "us" refusing to let "them" continue taking it from us. > >>> We can not truly comprehend what it means for some folks in Russia >>> to no longer be able to feed their children this month. > > Much the same argument can be applied to the dependents of any criminal > who is newly prevented from profiting from crime. > > Doesn't stop us from putting criminals away. Nor should it, IMO. And, > whether these people are criminals by their own society's rules, they > were by ours, and since they were operating in ours, our rules apply. > > Yes, it sucks for innocents to get caught in the middle - and, while I > suspect most of the people actually making comments aren't very > innocent, there doubtless are some who are - their kids, spouses, etc. > But I consider it better than the alternatives, which amount to giving > up on rule-of-law. > > /~\ The ASCII Mouse > \ / Ribbon Campaign > X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] > / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
