Death Penalty For Hackers?
On Slashdot there is a story with the title Death Penalty For Hackers?:
The New York Times Op-Ed page has a piece entitled Worse Than Death (Obnoxious but free registration required) that calls for harsher 'hacker' penalties as a deterrent, quoting one academic as recommending even well, the death penalty – as a deterrent for the likes of Sasser author Sven Jaschan.
This article is based on Steven E. Landsburg's article Feed the Worms Who Write Worms to the Worms.
Slashdot comments on that were as usual – mostly boring and absolutely uncritical. I got the impression that most commenters found death penalty generally fine or disagreed with it, because in their opinion there are so many who deserve it. And did you find anybody questioning the idea of punishment?
posted by Simi at
8:46 p.m.
1 Comments:
No, not very often. Most of the people don't think about the idea of punishment because they agree with it. Often you can hear: "Okay it's not the best system of punishment and law, but without that - TERRIBLE!" or something like that. Think about Thomas Hobbes. He told us a story without the state and what was the result: A war of all against all...
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