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Re:The Case Against Google by aje403 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @12:48PM (#16422240)
Great thinking, the world is full of immoral people, should we burn that down too?
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Re:The Case Against Google by IntronExon on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @12:58PM (#16422331)
No, but we have these neat things called society, and government, regulations, and laws to minimize the damage they can do.
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Re:The Case Against Google by aje403 on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @01:24PM (#16422571)
Which ideally should try to solve problems pragmatically, rather than resorting to "excision and destruction"
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Re:The Case Against Google by IntronExon on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @01:36PM (#16422676)
It depends, we do have prisons and life sentences.

Edit:...And the death penalty, which I oppose, but has been a constant for thousands of years.

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Re:The Case Against Google by yesenadam on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @06:10PM (#16425165)
Your assumption that the two are always mutually exclusive doesn't seem justified to me.
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