Tuesday, July 29, 2003

Pentagon's Futures Market Plan Condemned

Can anyone invest in this giant Death Pool? Who gets to decide who's worthy to be put on the list? If you invest in attacks or assasinations of US targets will that get you on a terrorist watch list?

What's to stop someone from say, betting heavy on some person being assasinated, then performing the deed and raking in the profits? This could be used as a tool to reward killing.

Just imagine, the US puts, say Yassir Arafat on the list, and then someone hedges the bets against him being killed waaaay up. Then somebody comes along and bets that he will be killed and says when, then goes and does it. Doesn't this just equate to more of a payment then? I guess you could just check the list of people saying he will be killed and have a good start on who did it, but then wouldn't it make people not want to invest in a possible killing?

Man, when the Dead Pool was simple and you only had to outwit Dirty Harry.

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