Re: [projectvrm] VRM iinfrastructure

+1 well said!
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From: "Crosbie Fitch" 
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:44:28 
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Subject: [projectvrm] VRM iinfrastructure

> From: Luk Vervenne
> Introducing the individual as 'a genuine stakeholder in his 
> own processes', means we - in addition - now also need a 
> personal server / infrastructure to talk to organisations as 
> the client.

In our society there are only human beings. Only these individuals have
rights.

We may create artifical entities/virtual identities (such as 'corporations'
to enable sociopathic profiteers among us to evade culpability), but woe
betide us if we even think of equating these to human beings (being
unnatural artifices, virtual identities cannot have natural rights).

We should not be pretending that virtual identities are like human beings.
We should be enabling all individuals to trade via virtual identities (my
term for Venessa's 'cybertwin'). When individuals wish to trade as human
beings they can do so face to face.

A priori, a human being cannot cause harm to a virtual identity, nor vice
versa. A virtual identity is an abstract construct, a financial instrument
and can have no natural rights. When we allow virtual identities to bring
human beings into court to bankrupt and/or imprison them for 'harm' (yet no
virtual identity can be bodily harmed or imprisoned, nor have a human body's
'once only' life ruined) then we've lost sight of our own humanity in
pursuit of profit and the protection of our financial instruments against
mortal competition.

As Luk observes, we need a new trading infrastructure, a new market where
virtual identities are legally isolated from the real world of human beings
- where neither can (or are pretended can) harm the other. 

Consequently the corporation (as typically legally recognised and protected)
should be abolished (having been unethically elevated), but they are
effectively a virtual identity already. We have to return to a recognition
that human beings harm each other and the environment, and so are
responsible for that harm. We cannot dissolve culpability for that harm
within a virtual entity such as a corporation.

However, this new infrastructure cannot be quite so crude as to simply
require each individual to have something akin to a webserver. It requires a
distributed infrastructure, a system run on all participants' internetworked
PCs where there is no correlation between the (distributed) digital
representation of a virtual identity and the various PCs it may be
replicated upon. This would be to, say, eBay as FreeNet* is to the Web.


* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet