[FRIAM] Can you guess the source.

[Phil Henshaw]

Close to that is the perspective that laws just codify the way people
would rather behave without laws, but wouldn't be able to becauce of
muggers and rapers like Nick!!


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com 
> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 6:38 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Can you guess the source.
> 
> 
> Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> > And counsels of dispair are urgings toward a libertine life.  On the
> > theory that my raping and muggering is as likely to produce social 
> > good as my non raping and non muggering, why dont I just go out and 
> > rape and mugger? 
> Is there some evidence that, without constraint, many people 
> would just 
> as soon rape and mugger?   I think if I woke up one morning 
> and found a 
> trunk of $1000 bills by the bed, I'd hide it and then go to 
> work.  With 
> no worries, I expect I'd be more productive.  Maybe I'd be 
> late and walk 
> the dog first.
> 
> 
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