Comments on: You Can’t Make an Omelette without Breaking a Few Eggs http://techliberation.com/2008/04/06/you-cant-make-an-omelette-without-breaking-a-few-eggs/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: MikeT http://techliberation.com/2008/04/06/you-cant-make-an-omelette-without-breaking-a-few-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-44270 MikeT Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:56:58 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10624#comment-44270 <p>I would rather see them hang for murder, rather than get a few years in prison. This is no less morally negligent than a police officer stopping someone carrying someone who is having a heart attack to the hospital, and insisting on writing them a parking ticket right now as opposed to after the operation. I don't think it matters that they didn't intend to kill this child--any reasonable human being would have seen at that time that such a course of action might kill the child, therefore they are utterly responsible for that child's death in every meaningful sense as a murderer on the street would be.</p> I would rather see them hang for murder, rather than get a few years in prison. This is no less morally negligent than a police officer stopping someone carrying someone who is having a heart attack to the hospital, and insisting on writing them a parking ticket right now as opposed to after the operation. I don’t think it matters that they didn’t intend to kill this child–any reasonable human being would have seen at that time that such a course of action might kill the child, therefore they are utterly responsible for that child’s death in every meaningful sense as a murderer on the street would be.

]]> By: MikeT http://techliberation.com/2008/04/06/you-cant-make-an-omelette-without-breaking-a-few-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-41065 MikeT Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:56:58 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10624#comment-41065 <p>I would rather see them hang for murder, rather than get a few years in prison. This is no less morally negligent than a police officer stopping someone carrying someone who is having a heart attack to the hospital, and insisting on writing them a parking ticket right now as opposed to after the operation. I don't think it matters that they didn't intend to kill this child--any reasonable human being would have seen at that time that such a course of action might kill the child, therefore they are utterly responsible for that child's death in every meaningful sense as a murderer on the street would be.</p> I would rather see them hang for murder, rather than get a few years in prison. This is no less morally negligent than a police officer stopping someone carrying someone who is having a heart attack to the hospital, and insisting on writing them a parking ticket right now as opposed to after the operation. I don’t think it matters that they didn’t intend to kill this child–any reasonable human being would have seen at that time that such a course of action might kill the child, therefore they are utterly responsible for that child’s death in every meaningful sense as a murderer on the street would be.

]]> By: enigma_foundry http://techliberation.com/2008/04/06/you-cant-make-an-omelette-without-breaking-a-few-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-44269 enigma_foundry Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:33:15 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10624#comment-44269 <p>The other point here is: if we had spent the money we are spending on the "War on Terror" what else could we have done with that money?<br><br>Paid for a national health insurance program (not a favorite thing here in libertarian land) of of course. So in addition to to wrongs committed (angering the rest of the world at USA, killing this baby, among the thousands more killed (for example, by the pollution from depleted uranium bullets) there is also the lost opportunity--what we could have done with that money which has now been squandered, for no good reason.</p> The other point here is: if we had spent the money we are spending on the “War on Terror” what else could we have done with that money?

Paid for a national health insurance program (not a favorite thing here in libertarian land) of of course. So in addition to to wrongs committed (angering the rest of the world at USA, killing this baby, among the thousands more killed (for example, by the pollution from depleted uranium bullets) there is also the lost opportunity–what we could have done with that money which has now been squandered, for no good reason.

]]> By: enigma_foundry http://techliberation.com/2008/04/06/you-cant-make-an-omelette-without-breaking-a-few-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-41026 enigma_foundry Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:33:15 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10624#comment-41026 <p>The other point here is: if we had spent the money we are spending on the "War on Terror" what else could we have done with that money?</p> <p>Paid for a national health insurance program (not a favorite thing here in libertarian land) of of course. So in addition to to wrongs committed (angering the rest of the world at USA, killing this baby, among the thousands more killed (for example, by the pollution from depleted uranium bullets) there is also the lost opportunity--what we could have done with that money which has now been squandered, for no good reason.</p> The other point here is: if we had spent the money we are spending on the “War on Terror” what else could we have done with that money?

Paid for a national health insurance program (not a favorite thing here in libertarian land) of of course. So in addition to to wrongs committed (angering the rest of the world at USA, killing this baby, among the thousands more killed (for example, by the pollution from depleted uranium bullets) there is also the lost opportunity–what we could have done with that money which has now been squandered, for no good reason.

]]> By: Sarah http://techliberation.com/2008/04/06/you-cant-make-an-omelette-without-breaking-a-few-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-44268 Sarah Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:30:21 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10624#comment-44268 <p>Very sad.</p> Very sad.

]]> By: Sarah http://techliberation.com/2008/04/06/you-cant-make-an-omelette-without-breaking-a-few-eggs/comment-page-1/#comment-41000 Sarah Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:30:21 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=10624#comment-41000 <p>Very sad.</p> Very sad.

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