Shared Responsibility by stan

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blockchain · @stan · Jul 12 '16

$2.07

Shared Responsibility

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<p><strong>Judge Knot:</strong> &nbsp;State your name and occupation.</p>
<p><strong>Ben Gineer:</strong> &nbsp;Your honor, I’m Ben Gineer, a retired defense contractor, homesteader and Sunday School teacher.</p>
<p><strong>Prosecutor:</strong> &nbsp;Mr. Gineer, where were you on the evening of August 24th, 2015?</p>
<p><strong>Ben Gineer:</strong> &nbsp;Uh, I was runnin’ some experiments on the gun range at my farm in southern Virginia.</p>
<p><strong>Prosecutor:</strong> &nbsp;Is this your evil black assault rifle?</p>
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<p><strong>Ben Gineer:</strong> &nbsp;Well now, that sure looks like my AR-15. &nbsp;Not many of ‘em have those crash test dummy reference cross-hairs painted on ‘em like that…</p>
<p><strong>Prosecutor:</strong> &nbsp;Mr. Gineer, police forensics tell us that this rifle has your finger prints and it fired a bullet that was found lodged in the head of a man found dead on your property that night.</p>
<p><strong>Ben Gineer:</strong> &nbsp;Yeah, I kin believe that…</p>
<p><strong>Prosecutor:</strong> &nbsp;So you admit that you shot him?</p>
<p><strong>Ben Gineer:</strong> &nbsp;No, no. &nbsp;I wasn’t in control of the weapon at that time.</p>
<p><strong>Prosecutor:</strong> &nbsp;Not in control? &nbsp;What are you talking about?</p>
<p><strong>Ben Gineer:</strong> &nbsp;Well, I had that rifle set up on a remote control stand. &nbsp;It was rigged so that folks out on the web could control it by consensus using real time blockchain technolergy.</p>
<p><strong>Prosecutor:</strong>&nbsp; Did you see what happened?</p>
<p><strong>Ben Gineer:</strong> &nbsp;Yeah, I did. &nbsp;My wife Ethel was just comin’ back from a trip inta town ta git herself a snow cone. &nbsp;She was gittin’ outa her car when that fella came streakin’ out of the corn field headin’ straight fer her. &nbsp;I hollered over the hog callin' mike, “Look out, Ethel!” &nbsp;But it was too late. &nbsp;He’d already done pulled a knife on her. Next thing I knowed, his brains was splattered all over her favorite housedress. &nbsp;She weren’t none too happy about <ins>that</ins>, let me tell ya!</p>
<p><strong>Prosecutor:</strong> &nbsp;Do you expect us to believe that you let perfect strangers out on the web fire a live weapon in an area where your family is coming and going?</p>
<p><strong>Ben Gineer:</strong> &nbsp;Nobody’s perfect. &nbsp;‘Sides, we interview everbody who wants ta perticipate jes ta make sure no whackos are among ‘em. &nbsp;An iffin' a whacko did somehow get through our screenin', it don’t make no never mind. &nbsp;Ya see, the system requires everbody ta vote on what gits shot.</p>
<p><strong>Prosecutor:</strong> &nbsp;Voting! &nbsp;That’s down right irresponsible!</p>
<p><strong>Ben Gineer:</strong> (losing his fake country accent) Not at all. &nbsp;This is a carefully controlled experiment gathering data to support an unsolicited proposal for DARPA, er, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. &nbsp;The whole gun range is fenced off with lots of warning signs and alarms to let people know that they are approaching an active test range. &nbsp;The teleoperated gun is safer that if it were in the hands of any single human, since 51% of the operators must agree on the target and the authorization to fire.</p>
<p><strong>Prosecutor:</strong> &nbsp;So all we have to do is find out who the last person to vote was and prosecute them for the cold-blooded murder of that poor knife-wielding victim.</p>
<p><strong>Ben Gineer:</strong> &nbsp;Won’t do your no good. All the transactions on the blockchain are anonymous. There are no records for you to subpoena. &nbsp;That’s the whole point. We’re trying to show that the psychological problems experienced by soldiers returning from wars can be mitigated if they are never forced to unilaterally take a human life. &nbsp;There’s psychological safety in shared responsibility and they can always tell themselves they weren’t the one who cast the deciding vote to fire. &nbsp;Sort of like assuring a firing squad that one of them has been issued a blank cartridge...or like voting with 30 million other people for someone else to steal from 30 million other people for you. &nbsp;The system is engineered for complete anonymity and safety from all responsibility. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Prosecutor:</strong> &nbsp;So you’re saying there is no way to ever prove who did it?</p>
<p><strong>Ben Gineer:</strong> &nbsp;Not beyond a reasonable doubt.</p>
<p><strong>Judge Knot:</strong> &nbsp;Case dismissed.</p>
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@brindleswan · Jul 25 '16

$0.07

Wow. Nice work Stan. You may not have gotten initial whale upvotes (???) but this has been entered into the immortal Steem blockchain, and will be part of a never-ending passive revenue stream. I'm proud to have sent you 2 out of only 100 Giggls!

👍 stan, brindleswan

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@flower · Jul 13 '16

Clever

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@oholiab · Jul 12 '16

@stan Have you read The Peripheral by William Gibson? There's a tangentially similar concept in that which I think you'd get a kick out of if you haven't read it already.

This dovetails very nicely with a bunch of stuff about the right to an explanation when an autonomous vehicle takes one life in order to save another - it's some very weird future ethics we're starting to land ourselves in.

I liked the style of article you chose to use :)

👍 stan

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@stan · Jul 12 '16

Thanks, I'll check it out!

👍 oholiab

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