Re:When should behaviour outside a community have consequenc...
by ThrowawayR2 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:52AM
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And when public opinion changes so that your political opinions are out of fashion, that same "precrime" argument will be used to lock you out of society.
Authoritarian liberals seem to forget that what goes around, comes around.
Re:When should behaviour outside a community have consequenc...
by mannykannot on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:38PM
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My mistake - I took 'precrime' to mean simply an act that does not or has not yet amounted to a criminal act, but I see it is a term of art for punishing people on the basis of what they might do. There is nothing very wrong, IMHO, in choosing who you put your trust in and with who you associate on the basis of what they have already done. The first three words of the article are "free software communities...": its not about society as a whole, or any situation where exclusion could reasonably be considered punishment.
Exactly - a lack of trustworthiness can be demonstrated long before any crime has been committed.
> And how do you rehabilitate them without giving them the opportunity to participate in the community?
Your use of 'community' in this argument precludes there being an inside and outside, so it is not relevant to the question posed in the article's title. Furthermore, there is an answer - rehabilitation starts in environments where the risk is limited.