Bill Thompson

They're really federalist-minded, state-minded.

And there's, you know, even for that being 250 years ago, there's a profound amount of profanity in that.

Like, let's change things slowly and let social experiments take place and adopt the best parts of those things and then integrate them to the culture overall as we move along.

But, you know, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Yeah.

And that suicidal empathy becomes a way for the person who's imposing it on someone else to feel good about themselves, which makes it even trickier and even more insidious because they're feeling good from the weaponization of other people's

And the thing about that is none of the rules that you're going to impose, especially as a legislator or as somebody in a think tank, you'll never feel the repercussions of them.

You'll never have to actually deal with it day to day.

You're just imposing it on someone else and saying, I better understand the structure of reality and the fabric of the world

And you can't help but be this way.

It's the system that's done this to you.

So let me give you pittance that I'm going to take from someone else.

And that makes me benevolent.

I get to feel good about that.

Yeah, and then they would just inevitably change the ways that we track and measure those things and pay themselves more.

I'm being cynical.

You're right, though.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, it was one of the things, my last three years in the military, I was advising a colonel and a two-star general, and they were in charge of all of the offensive cyber developments.

ethical hacking, offensive cyber development.