Auteur: Amir Taaki Datum: Aan: unsystem Onderwerp: Re: [unSYSTEM] Onymity and other annoying presumptions against My
Will
On our world everyone is called Marklar.
On 12/07/13 04:32, Mike Gogulski wrote: > Before I was born or conceived, I had no name. After I was
> conceived and began multiplying My cells, I had no name. When I
> emerged from My mother's womb, I had no name.
>
> Other (putative) humans attached labels to Me, and called Me by
> them. They told Me: This is Your Name, and You shall be known by
> none other.
>
> My desires or choices were never taken into account. Never even
> considered.
>
> I still have no name. Just labels. But today I have more choices.
>
> My mother has no name. Just labels. My father no longer exists. He
> had no name either, just labels, and his labels refer only to
> memories or to decayed flesh and bone in a box buried beneath an
> expensively-maintained park-like area labeled a "cemetery".
>
> Peace, Mike
>
> PS: I don't much trust my biological family.
>
> On 07/11/2013 06:57 PM, JINDQ1 wrote:
>> If you extend on that principle, you'll see that we only trust
>> family because we can tell them apart. What if your mother and
>> father were anonymous? How would that change your world? What if
>> all people were completely faceless and could change names and
>> appearance at any moment? I'm having a hard time believing that's
>> in the best interest of a society that seeks to protect itself in
>> numbers. Maybe DNA will be the answer to that, not bitcoin.
>>
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>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab
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>> Cody R Wilson <codywilson@???> wrote: That's kind of
>> breathtaking, Matthew.
>>
>> Might I offer that political economy isn't the only grid by which
>> we should evaluate the concept?
>>
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>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 8:36 AM, JINDQ1 <jindq1@???
>> <mailto:jindq1@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> I'd love to mock them (because it's easy), but if you want to
>> play the game created by old dudes who still think IP address =
>> single person, you'll have to follow all the rules.
>>
>> The real question is, is being anonymous good for society? I
>> haven't seen a single benefit of anonymity (lacking any
>> verification documents) that isn't highly outweighed by it's
>> ability to enable abuse. Human beings may be nameless, but
>> they're not non-quantifiable. Is there a way to remove the names
>> and keep the verifiable quantity that doesn't make the
>> libertarians twitch and squirm?
>>
>> Matthew
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