Re:Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital
by cortesoft on Friday September 18, 2020 @04:55PM
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It depends on what you hack, doesn't it? If your hack causes physical harm, it is a physically violent act. You wouldn't say that someone firing a gun didn't commit a physically violent act just because all they did was pull a trigger.
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Re:Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital
by young_unixer on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:00PM
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There must be a distinction between:
1. Actions that are physically violent
2. Actions that cause physical harm, but the action itself is not physically violent
If 1 and 2 were the same, it would imply that voting for a politician that decides to kill people is just as bad as killing people yourself. The consequences of that wouldn't be good.
> You wouldn't say that someone firing a gun didn't commit a physically violent act just because all they did was pull a trigger.
If the gun is their property, it's their fault that their property is attacking someone. It's not pulling the trigger that's wrong, its that their property attacked someone else. Same idea applies to killer robots.
If the gun is not their property, then it's their fault that they used someone else's property.
Re:Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital
by harimau777 on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:01PM
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If you reasonably know that the politician would murder someone then you absolutely are equally bad if you vote for them