Re:Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance pl...
by dane-pgp on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @12:05AM
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> In the opposite end
Although it might be convenient to treat life as being somehow legally symmetrical, I think that is still a position that needs to be justified.
To give a strange analogy, if someone gathers all the materials needed to make a bomb, but doesn't mix them together, they can still be arrested for bomb-making, even though, in a strictly chemical sense, they haven't made anything that can donate.
Although it might be convenient to treat life as being somehow legally symmetrical, I think that is still a position that needs to be justified.
To give a strange analogy, if someone gathers all the materials needed to make a bomb, but doesn't mix them together, they can still be arrested for bomb-making, even though, in a strictly chemical sense, they haven't made anything that can donate.