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Do you really think you want live in a world where people can do whatever they want on their computers?


Yes

Because I know the alternative and I've seen the motivations of people trying to tell me what to do "for my own good"


Ok, you do realise people commit crimes using computers yes?


You do realize that crimes are specific to geographic regions, yes? How EXACTLY would you propose building inherent limitations into a general purpose computing device that would account for this?


Who said anything about inherent limitations?


You can drive your car into a crowd of people, and that's illegal everywhere.


Do you really think you want to live in a world where people disagree with you?

Not saying that cyber-crime is a good thing, just trying to illustrate that we shouldn't be gauging what should be possible by what you want and don't want.


What? I’m delighted to live in a world where people disagree with me. It would be tremendously dull otherwise.

We design the world around what large majorities of “reasonable” people want all the time.

I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make here at all.




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