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Moon Laws
On Oct 8, 10:27 am, John Schilling wrote:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 07:09:05 +0100, "Mike Dworetsky" Given that any puncture of a habitat or space suit is potentially fatal for all inhabitants, I'd definitely include in the constitution or body of law a ban on private ownership of firearms. Didn't we just have this discussion? A puncture of a habitat is only "potentially fatal for all inhabitants" if you assume the inhabitants are going to spend the next couple of days doing absolutely nothing whatsoever about it. So, if you were administering a Terrestrial city, would you insist on a ban on private ownership of matches? Yes, you just had this discussion. It DOESN'T MATTER. The people who think any hole is a catastrophy have seen LOTS of movies and TV shows that show it being a catastrophy, and for the most part haven't taken any classes in fluid dynamics at all (or watched myth-busters for that matter). I'm guessing no, but that you'd still be in favor of the ban on firearms. Again, the legal and political environment in any future space colonies is going to have a *lot* more to do with the people who decide to set up the colony, than the nature of the colonial environment. Whatever laws you want to impose on your neighbors, you'll find a reason to say those law are particularly appropriate for your space colony. Guns release evil gun mind control rays that corrupt otherwise non- violent people into homicidal murderers even if no gun is actually present. You should know this. The danger to the habitat is that the people working in life support might NOT have a gun present, and hence when one of them sucumes to the "gun poisoning" they will be forced to resort to doing something seriously nasty rather than just opening fire. DougL |
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