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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 248214" data-attributes="member: 354">What I find "really fascinating" is that your "knee jerk" reaction to my "knee jerk" reaction just furthers my point.First of all, I do not WANT a perfectly free society. That's anarchy. Anarchy doesn't serve anyone in the long run. A certain level of social moderation is essential to preclude us degrading into little more than technology using apes. If we are free to do as we please, the vast majority of people will do just that. Do what they want. Not what they should. As a result, I would NOT freely adopt the society you are proposing, thus the computer would try to find a new one. But by the time it found one _I_ agree to, other people would not agree to it. And I'm not a freak of nature... at least not that much. I'm hardly the only person who doesn't want anarchy as a government... but I also know people who, given the choice, would settle for nothing less. Thus, they would never agree to my theories of a perfect government.</blockquote>