[Gllug] Editors

[Chris Ball]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 07:14:38PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> 1.  I don't accept that RIP will be effective against crime - clueful
> criminals will be as hard to catch as ever and clueless ones will keep
> on sending computers stacked with child-porn to PC World.
> 
> 2.  The fact that a measure might catch some criminals (not for a minute
> accepting that this one will) is not in itself a justification.
> Embedding tracker tags in the spinal column of every citizen would be
> effective against crime, so obviously anybody arguing against it is an
> evil defender of paedophiles.  You have to balance the positives against
> the potential for harm and RIP fails that test, IMO.

*applauds one of the few sane posts in the thread[1]* :-)

~C.

[1]: Yes, including my own. Especially so, in fact. :)
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