• rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    In my opinion Hassan ibn Sabbah was the most perceptive libertarian in the history of this planet.

    In other words, how good can be all the bodyguards these people can hire to protect themselves from retribution, in case the small part of logically connecting them to an event is fulfilled by peaceful means?

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      7 months ago

      That’s the point of the plausible deniability. You can go after them with a personal conviction, but you can’t go after them with proof. There’s nothing left to “logically connect”.

      Because they controlled the mechanisms that were designed to hold them accountable, and made sure not to be accounted for.

      Kinda like how attackers who intrude on a system delete the logs and other traces of their presence.