Xref: utzoo comp.admin.policy:521 comp.org.eff.talk:2794 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!kadie From: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Privacy and punishment (was: E-mail Privacy) Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 91 18:42:27 GMT References: <50318@muvms3.bitnet> <1991Jun17.201213.324@am.sublink.org> Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL Lines: 12 Nntp-Posting-Host: herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu In <1991Jun17.201213.324@am.sublink.org> alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli) writes: [...] >If you accept the early English liberals' ideas about the rationality >of (wo)man, it then follows that you can deter crime, either with [...] Now instead of assuming rationality, the state exploits irrationalty by sponsoring lotteries that pay back less that 50 cents on the dollar. - Carl -- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign