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foo-bar-bat | 2 years ago

"Live outside of society" has a nice ring to it, but the meaning of those words when choosing to disobey court orders converts via bailiff to residing in jail cell. That's not living "outside society" or its constraints. It's very inside of them.

If you want to actually live outside of society, perhaps the only way to do that is on a simple sailboat like Moxie did for a while:

https://archive.org/details/holdFastADocumentaryByMoxieMarli...

But even that only works temporarily because eventually something breaks or runs out, and you will be re-confronted by reality (some society somewhere) once ashore. For example your hypothetical phone unlock is what happened to Moxie. From Wikipedia:

"While entering the U.S. on a flight from the Dominican Republic in 2010, Marlinspike was detained by federal agents for nearly five hours, all his electronic devices were confiscated, and at first agents claimed he would only get them back if he provided his passwords so they could decrypt the data. Marlinspike refused to do this, and the devices were eventually returned, though he noted that he could no longer trust them, saying, "They could have modified the hardware or installed new keyboard firmware."

source: https://www.wired.com/2010/11/hacker-border-search/

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dools|2 years ago

There are millions of people who live totally lawless lives. Sometimes they get imprisoned, also sometimes they get killed or tortured. But living a life of crime is a choice available to everyone.

soulofmischief|2 years ago

What exactly is the point you're making? The rejection was of OP's use of the word "moral" when discussing legal compulsion.