andreasvc · HackerTrans

11 years agodiscuss

You're not contradicting anything I said, I wouldn't claim utopias are the only reason for people to become violent. I do believe that true believers such as with religions or utopias are particularly dangerous. Did you reply this way because you approve of communism?

andreasvc

11 years agodiscuss

It wasn't equated. It was mentioned as an example of something that is practically impossible to eradicate. Accepting this is better than for example sacrificing all of our civil liberties in exchange for security theater.

andreasvc

11 years agodiscuss

There has been plenty of communist-inspired violent terrorism. Germany's RAF, Italy's Red Brigade, Japan's United Red Army, Peru's Shining Path, Columbia's FARC, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, etc. etc. Saying these are not real communists is just a No True Scotsman. As soon as people start believing in utopias there's a danger that they will cross a line.

andreasvc

14 years agodiscuss

It wouldn't provide any meaningful security; think of how difficult it is to make a CAPTCHA that is both readable for humans and hard to beat for computers. Adding security to a conversation is a solved problem in the technical sense (use encryption such as GPG), the only reason that it's not in widespread use is that people can't be bothered.

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