Re:Bitcoin app rejected by Apple
by shasta on Saturday May 07, 2011 @08:48PM
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Without arguing with your specific wording of "completely unambiguous and free of arbitrary cutoffs etc.", I think the implicit point you're making that a group of highly intelligent people couldn't sit down and come up with a significantly better new set of laws "from scratch" is wrong. I think they could, if that were their only aim, vastly improve laws and government with a noticeable improvement on average quality of life in the world. The obvious problems and the reason this won't likely happen soon are politics, power, trust, etc.
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Re:Bitcoin app rejected by Apple
by sirclueless on Saturday May 07, 2011 @11:39PM
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I think the chances of finding a group of highly moral, highly impartial, highly intelligent to work together to set up a new system of laws "from scratch" with no other goals than to produce a better system of laws and improve the average quality of life is practically nil.
Although the US system is far from perfect, I think Jefferson, Hamilton and Madison did a pretty darn good job of all that.