12th August 2003, 12:44 AM
But of course, but that's hardly the debate. He's saying the victim of this imaginary crime, or any real one just like it, is to blame. He's saying that someone DESERVES for it to happen to them.
And of COURSE theft is "evil". Why should I use any loving term to describe it? There's no other way to put it, except "bad" or "wrong". Or, bedong, yes, stealing is bedong. Sorry, understanding stops when there's no excuse to do something. One's right to swing their arm stops where my face begins.
From the first post, geo is attempting to say a victim can only blame themselves just because of a laps in security. While one can go on about how one may indeed be stupid, or the security mechanism flawed, or any number of other ways to place the blame, the fact is that the theft would not have occured if the theft hadn't occured! It's a VERY simple thing to understand. Had the person not stolen it, it would not have been stolen. Had a hacker not corrupted a system, the system would not be corrupted. It's EXACTLY as simple as that. It is no more complicated than that at all. Thus, the blame lies SOLELY with the one who did it in the first place.
And of COURSE theft is "evil". Why should I use any loving term to describe it? There's no other way to put it, except "bad" or "wrong". Or, bedong, yes, stealing is bedong. Sorry, understanding stops when there's no excuse to do something. One's right to swing their arm stops where my face begins.
From the first post, geo is attempting to say a victim can only blame themselves just because of a laps in security. While one can go on about how one may indeed be stupid, or the security mechanism flawed, or any number of other ways to place the blame, the fact is that the theft would not have occured if the theft hadn't occured! It's a VERY simple thing to understand. Had the person not stolen it, it would not have been stolen. Had a hacker not corrupted a system, the system would not be corrupted. It's EXACTLY as simple as that. It is no more complicated than that at all. Thus, the blame lies SOLELY with the one who did it in the first place.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)