Re: What is an Obituary?

Kerry Raymond wrote:
>> *Not* acceptable.  Why should *I* have to pay for other peoples' 
>> misbehaviour.  This is what it comes down to.
> 
> Indeed, why should I have to pay for locks on my doors to keep out the 
> burglars? Or car insurance against some fool running into me? Why are my

> taxes paying for police and prisons?
> 
> It seems to me that I am paying all the time for other people's 
> misbehaviour. I don't see the virtual world as being fundamentally 
> different. Given the same practical limitations on being able to prevent
the 
> misbehaviour, I can't see that the rest of us have any other solution
than 
> to pay to protect ourselves against the bad guy and that comes with both

> cost and inconvenience (as in real life). Indeed, the ease with which
the 
> bad guys on the Internet can cross jurisdictional boundaries of policing
and 
> justice systems makes it far more unlikely that they will be caught or 
> punished than people who misbehave within a police/justice jurisdiction.
> 
> Kerry
> 
> 
> 
> 

Maybe I spent too much of my career helping put the bad guys away.  It 
goes against the grain to see them flourish whilst others shrug their 
shoulders.

-- 
Ian

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