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But there’s no reason to believe that it would work out like this. He presents no argument for the above, just pure moral platitudes. It seems like a pure fantasy.
As I pointed out in the essay, if I were running one of the organizations accepting those donations and offering those prizes, I would selectively list only those targets who I am genuinely satisfied are guilty of the violation of the “non-aggression principle.” But as a practical matter, there is no way that I could stop a DIFFERENT organization from being set up and operating under DIFFERENT moral and ethical principles, especially if it operated anonymously, as I anticipate the “Assassination Politics”-type systems will be. Thus, I’m forced to accept the reality that I can’t dictate a “strongly limited” system that would “guarantee” no “unjustified” deaths: I can merely control my little piece of the earth and not assist in the abuse of others. I genuinely believe, however, that the operation of this system would be a vast improvement over the status quo.
Bell’s organization acts as (a) where Bell’s organization can dictate who is and is not a valid moral target. If we are talking about purely anonymous uncontrolled markets (and I assume we both are, since I separated them from (a) and you’re referring to anonymous markets on Ethereum), then we should instead expect them to be used to usher in hell.
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But there’s no reason to believe that it would work out like this. He presents no argument for the above, just pure moral platitudes. It seems like a pure fantasy.
Bell’s organization acts as (a) where Bell’s organization can dictate who is and is not a valid moral target. If we are talking about purely anonymous uncontrolled markets (and I assume we both are, since I separated them from (a) and you’re referring to anonymous markets on Ethereum), then we should instead expect them to be used to usher in hell.