Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note
by jacquesm on Sunday September 01, 2019 @04:41PM
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What a crap comment, I can see why you chose to use a throwaway account. That's about the same as saying that a law against breathing would make all of us illegals because it is something that we did, rather than that breathing is a direct result of being alive as a mammal. Sex is a natural thing. If you outlaw sex then you are by definition creating criminals, and you might as well name it for what it is: a law against certain groups of people. The act itself is merely the stick used to hit them with in a legal way.
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Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note
by heavenlyblue on Sunday September 01, 2019 @06:08PM
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Well, morally speaking having sex with a man went against the “morals of the time”. We changed our collective opinion since then.
Now what Ross Ulbricht did is amoral today - but are you so sure we will not change our opinion about this act in a few decades?
If people didn’t continue with their “amoral homosexuality” we could have never accepted it to be he norm. They are the heroes of their times.
In many ways, what Ulbricht had done may become a viable method of policing organisations that are “too big to be policed”.
Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note
by jacquesm on Sunday September 01, 2019 @06:46PM
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I'm going to guess that you weren't aware of this:
https://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-bos...