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Re:Chelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For by vec on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:57PM (#15243108)
A system where everyone has to wade through a bureaucratic mess occasionally is certainly not dystopian.

A system where only a handful of people have to wade through a bureaucratic mess with alarming regularity can get very dystopian very fast for those few.

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Re:Chelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For by zrth on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @07:30PM (#15243711)
Serious question, which is better though?
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Re:Chelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For by vec on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @08:55PM (#15244123)
Where possible, distributed is almost always better. Comfort and convenience, like all forms of currency, have diminishing marginal utility. Therefore, distributing the costs minimizes the net human suffering.
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Re:Chelsea Manning: The Dystopia We Signed Up For by ams6110 on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:00PM (#15244696)
There are always edge cases. That's why they are called edge cases.
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