Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

[Hartmut Goebel]

CW: politics below

Am 20.02.22 um 21:39 schrieb Martin Becze:
> But undermining the governments ability to raise tax and therefor to 
> wage war or not expending energy to prevent government theft is the 
> ‘controversial morality’ that I am sure can be agreed to death and 
> which probably doesn't belong on this list. 

Undermining the governments ability to raise tax also means undermining 
the ability to build schools, kindergartens, public libraries, public 
transport, streets, etc. Who is going to pay and provide all of this, If 
there is no democratically controlled(*) government?

You might argument that this will then be paid be wealthy people - but 
the country will depend solely on their will and want. And these wealthy 
people are not controlled at all. And these people might wage war, too. 
We already had such a system in the medieval time. It:s called feudalism.

So nothing is won by undermining the government.

(*) Democratic control still needs a lot of improvement. Esp. in the USA 
where „the winner takes it all“ results in a two-party system, which 
does not represent the people. But this is another issue.


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Hartmut Goebel

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