RE: UK: Drivers may be banned from smoking at the wheel

["Lawson, Joseph" <jsl () pqa com>]

Godwin's Law invoked.  

I could have sworn this list used to discuss security and funny stuff
instead of being 80 post flame wars.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
> On Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 2:04 PM
> To: Brian Loe
> Cc: funsec
> Subject: Re: [funsec] UK: Drivers may be banned from smoking at the
> wheel
>
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:43:18 CDT, Brian Loe said:
> > On 5/15/07, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> >
> > > In fact, the most *obvious* purpose in that case is "your mission
> is to lower
> > > the number of idiots while doing the least damage to society as a
> whole" (note
> > > that the secondary requirement rules out just rounding up the
> idiots and
> > > shooting them - I think Hitler proved that's pretty damaging to
> society).
> > Wow, and here I thought he rounded up the Jews because they were
> Jews!
>
> YHBT, HAND. ;)  He rounded them up because they were members of a
group
> that he believed were the cause of the "problems".  He also rounded up
> the
> Gypsies and the gays and a number of other groups too.
>
> > Is there any particular reason you believe all Jews are idiots?
>
> What Hitler proved was that just rounding up the group believed to be
> causing
> the problem and shooting them is damaging to society. It didn't work
> when he
> tried it with the Jews, why should we expect it to work any better if
> we tried
> it with the idiots (which, in fact, we *have* tried - go back and read
> up on
> the history of forced sterilization of the mentally challenged)?
>
> (A minute's thought will show that killing all the idiots will cause
> *more*
> societal damage than killing all the Jews.  First off, when you kill
> all the
> Jews you don't have as many grieving families, because you tend to
kill
> off
> the whole family.  Also, there's a lot more idiots out there than
there
> are
> Jews....)



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