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Topic History of: 31,000 people are supporting Assange and launching counter-attacks !
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In The Know |
Amazon deny it (well they would, wouldm't they?) - but you can't help thinking that this is rather a co-incidence !
news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Amazon...ervices_To_WikiLeaks |
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JK2006 wrote:
Sometimes you need to kill someone to save millions.
Let's NOT go there ..........
Isn't that exactly the reasoning used by the Yankers to launch their war in Iraq?
Oh yeah - quite a few will die, but the rest will thank us, dor the "democracy" we bring ?!
WHO decides who should die, and who should live?
One of the problems about Hitler was that the West had told sdo many lies in / after WW1, that when they started going on about what Hitler was doing no one actually beleieved them. They thought "here we go again".
Thats what happens when you tell lies. |
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JK2006 |
One of my main moral anchors has been "Don't kill anyone" - indeed, "don't harm anybody" - but suppose the shop had been a bunker and the target Hitler? Likewise, if the SAS had taken out Saddam and his family...
Sometimes you need to kill someone to save millions.
A difficult moral maze. |
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Locked Out |
"31,000 botnets - all launching cyber attacks - can do an awful lot of damage !"
That is certainly true. I'll give you another scenario.
A lone idiot armed with a hand grenade walks into a shopping mall and lobs the device into a shop whose manager he has a grievance with. In the resulting explosion not only does he take out the intended victim but kills 36 other people.
My point was that the 31,000 botnets downloaded may indeed do a lot of damage.
But that doesn't make their deployment right. And it doesn't make their deployment by an assumed 31,000 computer users representative of any significant public opinion.
31,000 rogue US Marines might kill millions. But it wouldn't make that action representative of the desires of the American people.
And that's a bad example in so many ways. |
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Locked Out wrote:
[color=#004080]Thirty One Thousand. Out of how many millions?
You'll pardon me if I fail to be excited about this.
31,000 botnets - all launching cyber attacks - can do an awful lot of damage ! |
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