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41 Post author: ShannonFriedman 16 August 2012 08:02PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 16 August 2012 09:12:21AM 5 points [-]

Or law enforcement in your country is too crappy.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 August 2012 08:44:15PM *  3 points [-]

(Crappy may not be the best word, though, because it's not always a bad thing: a country where whoever shares copyrighted material (e.g. on a P2P) without the consent of the copyright holder ends up in prison with probability 1 minus epsilon would be a helluva dystopia IMO.)

Comment author: DaFranker 17 August 2012 08:56:21PM *  2 points [-]

If you think of "crappy" in terms of "bad", and bad in terms of "not instrumentally rational", then an anti-crappy law enforcement seems like it wouldn't do something this twisted and society-disrupting.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 August 2012 10:10:31PM 2 points [-]

Well, let's say that in the great-grandparent by crappy I meant “not instrumentally rational for its own (stated) goals (i.e. enforcing the law)”, and then I replied to myself pointing out that what's not instrumentally rational for its own stated goals can still be instrumentally rational for the goals of humanity.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 17 August 2012 10:07:55PM 6 points [-]

Then you should be even less law-abiding.